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.
> 
> 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...

Maybe a switch in the Configuration Tool to allow the developers to turn 
the feature on and off?

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