Re: [OT] Re: Why is debugging under Linux such a pain

2005-02-05 Thread Tomasz Rola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Kyle Moffett wrote: > You could also try Xnest, which runs a second X-server within a window > of > the primary X-server, Yes, this is a good idea... > except without most of the extra overhead of VNC ...but I'm not sure if th

[OT] Re: Why is debugging under Linux such a pain

2005-02-05 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Feb 05, 2005, at 19:23, Tomasz Rola wrote: On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Marko Macek wrote: [...] It would be nice if display lock programs used a separate X display (some kind of "virtual" display support might be nice to have, mainly for performance). I would try VNC for this, at least for debugging. Bu

Re: Why is debugging under Linux such a pain

2005-02-05 Thread Tomasz Rola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Marko Macek wrote: [...] > It would be nice if display lock programs used a separate X display > (some kind of "virtual" display support might be nice to have, mainly > for performance). I would try VNC for this, at least for de

Re: Why is debugging under Linux such a pain

2005-02-05 Thread Marko Macek
Otto Wyss wrote: > No mouse or keyboard input was possible. I was completely stuck, IMO something _never_ should happen. Who's to blame for this situation: wxWidgets, GDB, GCC/G++, X or the Linux kernel? Or any combination? This is by design in X. XGrabKeyboard and XGrabPointer are usually to blam

Why is debugging under Linux such a pain

2005-02-05 Thread Otto Wyss
Sorry if this is off topic here but IMO this _has_ to be discussed in a broader audience since it probably has a rather large impact about the acceptance of Linux even if it isn't the kernel's fault. I just build the minimal sample of the wxWidgets framework and it crashed when playing around with