Re: how to debug panel applets ?

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 1/19/06, Rod Butcher <rbutcher hyenainternet com> wrote:
> Elijah Newren wrote:

> > 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

Odd, that was just one of the subcases covered in Davyd's page.  Maybe
it wasn't as clear.  Anyway, glad to hear that you got it working now.
 :)