Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 11:53:25 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: firebird and xemacs locking up/crashing "in pairs"??? Message-ID: <10580000.1070016805@rambutan.pingpong.net> In-Reply-To: <200311281025.hASAOx5r001739@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <200311281025.hASAOx5r001739@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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native. 0.6.x worked perfect, it happened when switching to gtk2.
An note: I use windowmanager, some here use enlightenment, noone use
gnome/kde and we all use "focus follows mouse", no clicking to activate a
window. I tried gnome to see if I could reproduce it there. Although I
didn't cope with it for very long, the problem did not arise. Perhaps I
didn't try long enough, or perhaps it is related to the focus setting. Ther
reason I suspect it this:
When switching workspaces using keyboard shortcut, if the mouse pointer is
placed so it is over two firebird windows, X cannot decide on which window
to focus, and switches focus between the two windows as fast as it can,
more than ten times / s, until I manually click a window title bar to force
focus. I've never seen this happen ever before, but I've not used gtk2 much
until now. See "image" for a clearer description :) mouse pointer is the
`^'.
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Also, sometimes, focus works bad and I cannot write any text in the
firebird window. refocusing by switching to another window and back usually
resolves it, but this is a first sign that it will eventually lock up as
described before.
I have seen this on different sites (at home and at the office), but I
always use "focus follows mouse". I will try changing focus strategy in
windowmanager and see if this helps.
Regards,
Palle
--On fredag, november 28, 2003 11.24.59 +0100 Gary Jennejohn
<garyj@jennejohn.org> wrote:
>
> Palle Girgensohn writes:
>> Well, shutting off type-ahead-search (the single best feature of
>> firebird,=20 btw) does not really help. I cannot reproduce the core dump
>> as before, but=20 firebird and xemacs still lock up in pairs. Just had
>> this experience, and=20 firebird would work even though I killed all its
>> processes and restarted=20 the application! Firebird shoed up, but never
>> tried accessing any URLs.=20 Started mozilla instead, worked fine...
>> Then I realized that xemacs was=20 hung, killed it and bingo, firebird
>> works again. Is this also a known=20 problem?
>>
>
> Are you using Linux-firebird or a natively compiled firebird? AFAIK
> I've never seen the problems you describe while using xemacs and the
> Linux-firebird together.
>
> ---
> Gary Jennejohn / garyj[at]jennejohn.org gj[at]freebsd.org gj[at]denx.de
>
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