Re: When Apps Crash...

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On 16 Jul 1999 17:26:30 -0400, Bruce Tong <zztong@laxmi.ev.net> wrote:

>> > 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.

This functionality already exists in gnome-libs, but has been disabled for
ages because it just put useless dialog boxes across all the developers'
screens when their under-development programs crashed...

I think Havoc committed a change today to improve it slightly, but I don't
know if he enabled it (gnome_segv) by default...

-- Elliot