Re: When Apps Crash...

[Bruce Tong <zztong laxmi ev net>]

> > I notice a number of applications crash when I try to use them. I'm
> > certain its probably the application that is crashing, but it occurred to
> > me it might be nice if Gnome would tell me when they crash.

> Press ctrl-alt-F1 or whatever virtual terminal you started X from, and
> there'll be an error message there. An app might be able to tell you itself
> that it's crashed by connecting a signal to the SIGSEGV signal (actually,
> I'm not too sure about this, I've not played with signals much), but I don't
> think another program is able to listen for signals sent to other processes
> (again, I'm probably wrong).

Yes, I understand. That's how I've been figuring it out. I guess I was
looking to make a suggestion to the Gnome developers. I get the impression
from other posts to this list there is a "wish list" place. Maybe I should
try to find it.

Thanks for the reply.

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