From: Bernie Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org>
To: Jonathan Morton <jonathan.morton@movial.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>, dclark <dclark@gnu.org>,
xorg-devel@lists.x.org, rms@gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: [SOLVED] Re: Debugging X with GDB
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263241586.2695.56.camel@giskard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263219976.15247.81.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 16:26 +0200, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> A good trick might be to run X+gdb via SSH or a serial console. This
> is then immune to VT switching semantics.
This is how I'm currently debugging, but X unconditionally cripples the
console even if it's a pty.
...
Wait, I've found a workaround! There's a specific option:
-keeptty don't detach controlling tty (for debugging only)
That's cool, but I guess we should document it very prominently in the
wiki:
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging
--
// Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
\X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-11 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-01-11 0:42 ` Bernie Innocenti
2010-01-11 14:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-01-11 14:29 ` Jonathan Morton
2010-01-11 15:22 ` Adam Jackson
2010-01-12 10:03 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-11 20:26 ` Bernie Innocenti [this message]
[not found] ` <E1NUPod-00026Y-78@fencepost.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <1263243923.2695.72.camel@giskard>
2010-01-12 23:19 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-14 22:46 ` Bernie Innocenti
2010-01-15 1:48 ` Tom Tromey
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