[opensource-dev] Debugging Snowstorm under Linux x64 with GDB locks the whole X session

[Zabb65]

Reading through the documentation on this. It may be easier to just
add "GDK_DEBUG=nograbs" to the shell script launcher when it uses GDB,
and have it work on all distros, up to date or not?

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 15:30, Monty Brandenberg <monty at lindenlab.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/2010 1:19 PM, Aleric Inglewood wrote:
>
>> yes, this is a "known" problem: the viewer sometimes locks the X display,
>> if then you halt it in the debugger you're toast.
>
> I only have creaky old Debians at hand but wondered if those with
> more modern distros with updated GTKs can work around it by
> changing the 'gtk_debug_flags'.  There's now a GTK_DEBUG_NOGRABS
> flag (1 << 12, I think).  Set that and play a bit.  No guarantees,
> you'll need very recent libs and I don't know at what point in
> execution you'll need to set that flag.  (The --gtk-debug and
> --gdk-debug cmd options also drive this.)  But there it is...
>
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