"Peter C. Norton" wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 12:27:04PM -0500, Ronald L. Chichester wrote:
> > I'm sorry to say that Dia crashed X four times. The
> > problem was repeatable, namely that when the drawing page was maximized,
> > it immediately locked up X. Interestingly enough, this problem did not
> > occur at all on the same machine when running Gnome.
>
> Complain to whoever wrote your X server. My understanding is that if an
> application can crash your X server it's more of a problem in the
> X server, and the application is just normally buggy.
>
"Locking up X" != crashing X, at least not some of the time. With
pointer grabs, it's possible for a misbehaving applicaiton to take control
of the input and not let go. X doesn't crash, but it becomes unresponsive.
-cks
