On Sun May 13 22:36 , 'James G. Sack (jim)' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>Ralph wrote: >>.. >>> Corollary: everything running within that X-instance is >> toast. >> >> Well, that's where I must disagree. In every instance where >> Mozilla got hosed, switching somewhere else then switching >> back would show a Mozilla title bar on a blank window. This >> Mozilla window continues to display correctly which leads me >> to believe that Mozilla is still fine. >> >> It seems like something is stuck thinking that the icon I was >> dragging is still in the drag process, even though it has >> become detached from the mouse pointer. > >I have seen both behaviors. Usually when the app-windows get blanked >further mouse clicks seem to make things pregressively worse, until even >the keyboard processing such as Ctrl Alt F1 fails. > >I do not recall reviving a system from the state you have. A few times, >it has gone unresponsive for (say) a minute or so -- but not like yours. > >Your suspicions could be right, but it would take an accredited X-wizard >to know how to do anything about it, I guess. > >The fact that a memory dump does NOT show your text remains a hint (to >me) that your email message is no longer in the process's memory map. >Your previous question of whether it might be UTF8-encoded would only >disguise some characters -- most of the bytes would be common 7-bit >ASCII, and unchanged in UTF8. It's possible that mozilla uses a 16bit >internal encoding, I suppose. You might be able to test that in your >second-X as another user. In my thunderbird dump I saw clearly readable >text from my unsaved email. Of course, tbird and moz may use different >internal encodings. > >Regards, >..jim On the console on F5, as a different user, I did "startx -- :2" (which came up on F10). As the other user, I started Mozilla, then its email, then a new email in its email composer. I typed a few test words, did a gcore on it and the text I had typed did *not* show up. One other possibility just occurred to me. Moving a window from one workspace to another inspired this idea. Under normal conditions, you can right click on the title bar (or on the task's button) and select a move to a different workspace. The X on F7 is unresponsive. The X I'm using currently is on F9 (same user). Is it possible (from X on F9) to grab Mozilla from X on F7 and pull it over here? Perhaps it's ridiculous to think this may be possible, but hey, I can wish, right? ---- Msg sent via CWNet - http://www.cwnet.com/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
