Re: [gtk-list] Re: opening modal windows from the "button-press-event" handler for clist

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Paul Barton-Davis <pbd@op.net> writes: 
> My guess is that it hasn't really killed the X server, but has just
> left in the middle of a server grab (whereby the X server attempts to

Pointer grab, not server grab - GDK doesn't export XGrabServer and
probably a good thing, too. :-)

The problem can likely be solved by queueing a one-shot idle function
(one that returns FALSE to remove itself) that creates and displays
the dialog.

Havoc