Re: [gtk-list] Re: Crashing X

[Shevek <shevek plaice valhalla net>]

On Tue, 5 May 1998, Tim Janik wrote:
[MUCH SNIP]
> as a workaround you can
> -	run an application that does an XGrabPointer
> -       switch vt
> -       sleep 5; kill -9 application
> -       switch back to the x-server.
> -	wait 4 secs and the application gets killed without the
> 	xserver crashing.
> 
> this happens with
> XFree86 Version 3.3 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
> 
> i've not reported this bug, and dunno owhether it's fixed with newer
> verions.
> ---
> ciaoTJ

Thanks, if it happens in future, I will definitely try.

As a followup to my query about lost_focus events, I found that the best
way to handle this was to set a boolean value when there is an onchange
event, and then test that boolean and update the database at every
lost_focus event, this works an absolute treat and also does the job
exactly as I want it done.

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