Re: Odd Linux behavior

[Lindley M French <lfrench1 gmu edu>]

Okay, I've determined that this new behavior is still just a symptom of expose events not occurring.

Still curious why expose events don't happen when the program is bg'd but on-screen, though.

----- Original Message -----
From: Lindley M French <lfrench1 gmu edu>
Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:07 pm
Subject: Odd Linux behavior

> About a month ago I posted that my GTK+ app stopped getting expose 
> events when I bg'd the app in Linux. Got no response, though.
> 
> Well, it seems to be worse than that.
> 
> I'm running the program through Putty from a Windows machine. If I 
> minimize the main window, or even just lock the screen, 
> *something* stops working. Can't say for sure what it is, but I've 
> got a console program which periodically sends the GUI updates via 
> pipes, and I left the combo running last night with the screen 
> locked.....and zero progress was made. I get in this morning, 
> unlock the screen, and it starts going again.
> 
> This can only mean that the pipes are filling up and not being 
> emptied, which means that *something* is blocking unexpectedly in 
> the GUI.
> 
> Does anyone have the first clue what I should be looking for to 
> fix this? I'm using GTK+ 2.12.
>