On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 11:03:43AM -0400, Charles Hines wrote: > >>>>> "DV" == Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> writes: > > DV> On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:20:27AM -0400, Charles Hines wrote: > >> Don't you use something like VNC, Xnest, or XMX when doing your debugging? > >> Should be able to use that to run fvwm under a debugger to debug focus > >> problems about as "easily" as any other window manager problem, no? > > DV> Sure, I use Xnest et al. quite a lot. The problem is: to use the > DV> debugger I have to focus it ruining the debug session. > > But if you run the debugger in a window in your main X11 session it's focus is > totally seperate from the focus of the fvwm/X11 session running in Xnest (or > VNC or XMX) so it shouldn't be an issue, no?
It's a bit hard to get the pointer out of the Xnest window without moving the mouse. Most of the time it's more trouble than using debug fprintfs. > DV> I rarely start a separate X server because XFree 4.x crashes or hangs most > DV> of the time when I do this (for debugging). > > Ugh, you mean when you start another X11 session on another virtual terminal > under Linux? Yup. > Bummer...sounds like a little bug in the XFree86 drivers for > your graphics card. Maybe, but maybe not. XFree 3.x worked fine most of the time, but with XFree 4.x things got a lot worse, even with the same gfx card. Also, switching X servers generates some funny and unwanted mouse events on the server switched to. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: 0721/91374-382 Schlund + Partner AG, Erbprinzenstr. 4-12, D-76133 Karlsruhe -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
