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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 10:40:00 -0000
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
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        "Strange gdb behavior when debugging Qt apps" (Feb  4,  4:46pm)
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Subject: Re: Strange gdb behavior when debugging Qt apps
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On Feb 4,  4:46pm, =?iso-8859-7?b?wevd7uHt5PHv8iDK4fH18N/k5/I=?= (Ale wrote:

> I am facing a rather strange problem using gdb.  I have written a simple Qt 
> application which creates a window with a few menu choices.  When I run the 
> application (no debugging), everything is ok.  If I try to run it within gdb 
> however, the fonts used are unreadable.  They letters are very small and one 
> cannot distinguish them.  Does anyone have any clue regading this strange 
> behavior?

In the course of starting up the process to be debugged, gdb invokes
the shell.  Could it be that a .bashrc, .cshrc, or the like is setting
(or unsetting) an environment variable which is influencing the font
size?

Kevin