FW: RE: [gtk-list] grabs, gdb and GTK+

[Trog <trog gtk org>]

Start gdb from a virtual console. Then you can switch back fine.

-tony


On 15-Nov-99 Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> once again, i ask the powers-that-be to consider changing the
> behaviour of certain widgets that take action on a button press
> event. their application almost always hold a server grab at that
> point, which means that if you want to use gdb to debug a function
> executed as part of the button press handler(s), you are *hosed* -
> you
> can't get pointer focus to leave the application until button
> release
> is seen by the X server and delivered.
> 
> this happens, for example, in most of the widgets the generate a
> "Selection" signal - the signal is emitted by the button press
> handler, and anything attached to it is impossible to debug.
> 
> unless, of course, anyone has any hints ...
> 
> --p
> 
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