Re: how to debug panel applets ?

[Rod Butcher <rbutcher hyenainternet com>]

Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 1/13/06, Rod Butcher <rbutcher hyenainternet com> wrote:
>
> > Can somebody give me a pointer to how to debug failure of panel applets
> > to load ? I turned on gdb before trying to load the weather applet (gdb
> > gnome-panel <pid>), which "quits unexpectedly" trying to load, but gdb
> > doesn't show any output from panel. ??
> > thanks
> > Rod
>
>
> http://www.davyd.id.au/articles/debugging-gnome-applets.shtml will
> probably be useful to you.  :)
Thanks, it didn't get me there though.
I found what seems to be the secret in Andrew Burton's "Writing Gnome 
Applets in Gnome2" tutorial at
http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/appletstutorial.html

following his notes, I first loaded the applet via a terminal e.g :-
gdb /usr/libexec/gweather-applet-2
run

then add the applet to the panel. The output then all goes to the 
terminal, and backtrace can be obtained

Rod
>

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