Re: [gtk-list] Avoiding grabs whilst debugging

[Federico Mena <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  I've introduced a --no-grab runtime option for gdk (similar to --sync,
>  etc) which asks gdk to ignore gdk_pointer_grab. This is so that you
>  can use gdb and not have your display freeze up if you hit a
>  breakpoint or whatever whilst the pointer is grabbed by your program.

Umm, this is useful to have, but is it really necessary?  When such a
situation arises, I usually run the program inside an Xnest window,
thus avoiding the `toplevel' server grab.

>  (ps how can you tell diff not to bother checking if non-text files
>  differ?)

Check the -x option :-)

  Quartic