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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/




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1NSMSM-0000oT-51@fencepost.gnu.org>
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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