To clarify, the 'Program exited normally' as soon as it had run and re- drawn the window settings correctly. So I'm not sure even if gdb was picking up the action of me adding a new keyboard layout mentioned in my first comment, above.
But as I said, every time I try to kill the running gnome-settings- daemon from within gdb, gdb hangs making it impossible to proceed any further in generating a backtrace. -- Adding additional keyboard layouts causes gnome-settings-daemon to use max CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587228 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
