On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 11:01:28 -0500 Conrad Knight <iestynap...@gmail.com> said:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 4:39 AM Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > oh - mouse pointer didn't change e.g. when over chrome? (when things froze). > > zero changes to pointer? in your previous mail you said the pointer changed > > when you clicked ... did it still do this? > > The cursor remains the default E cursor, as if the mouse was not > hovering over any window. When clicking, the outline of the cursor > blinks with a blue outline, just as it does when clicking on the > desktop, except no menu appears. This happens no matter which window > (or the desktop) the cursor is over. > > > nothing that leaps out at me... - try mousing over chrome - does the pointer > > change? > > Nope, as mentioned above. This is part of the reason i thought it > looked like no windows were getting focus. odd but e's pointer is there and does thing when u click - that means e is getting that mouse click and doing the pointer animations... it's alive. > > the fact the restart request works means e's event loop is working and > > processing events. you didn't try the gdb thing i mentioned right? > > No, i'm not sure how to do this: https://www.enlightenment.org/contrib/enlightenment_debugging if you want to attach without there being a crash.. first tell enlightenment_start to stop monitoring: killall -USR1 enlightenment_start then as the above - atach to the enlightenment process (don't send e a SEGV signal - that'll force an artificial crash) > > get e attached to gdb > > and set breakpoints for the buffer swapping. set a breakpoint for > > eng_outbuf_flush (function name - gdb commant: b eng_outbuf_flush). the best > > way to do this is ssh in from somewhere else as you will need e to keep > > running normally without it having screenblacked etc. > > I do have access to a Windows laptop with Putty to ssh in. Should the > "attach" part happen before or during a freeze-up? And how do i > actually attach a running E process to gdb and set the breakpoint? > > Thanks, > -Conrad. > > -- > Shine like thunder > Cry like rain > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
