On 07-Jun-2002 xOr wrote: > Found a way to make blackbox block in its select() call. > > Theres a comment above it say this is possible but near impossible.. > seems not to be the case :| It does it perfecetly consistantly on my > machine if I follow the right steps. > > This is, of course, with the latest cvs version. But should work for the > last few (all?) alphas too. > Also, I am using the cvs version of bbkeys. With bbkeys 0.8.4, this > doesn't happen for me. However, it seems that blackbox blocking is still > a problem regardless. I will attempt to track down what change in bbkeys > caused it. >
Solution found. bbkeys grabbed the server in Image.cc. Removing the grabs solved the lock. Now you get to figure out which lock was causing the problem and make sure it stops happening. Simple way to test this: BaseDisplay.cc:grab() comment out the XGrabServer() call.
