After I posted that last update, I was thinking how GIMP hasn't crashed since I started stracing pcmanfm. It would previously crash *a lot*. Much more frequently than the typical *days* between pcmanfm crashes. That seemed to confirm my suggestive mind that strace is throttling things and preventing a timing problem.
However, I haven't use GIMP as much lately. So, I just took a picture (I'm fostering a dog and was overdue for a new photo). The first thing I noticed using GIMP (2.10.8): the strace log was going absolutely wild. I'm stracing pcmanfm. Usually it stops emitting when I switch to an application. (I haven't tried a lot of apps. But, I thought I saw that when switching to my chrome browser. The log went dormant.). But, with GIMP, constant log activity (but I'm not stracing it). So, that confirmed to me stracing is slowing GIMP down and it wasn't hitting the "timing problem" I've been imaging about all this (clicking too fast, or something). Alas... GIMP finally did crash. It didn't freeze (which it used to do). It just disappeared. It's been disappearing. I haven't paid attention to whether freezing stopped, or when freezing and disappearing have both been occurring. (Come to think of it, I think pcmanfm has disappeared too -- in addition to, or replacing the freezing behavior. I stopped paying attention and it was all the same thing to me.). So, I have strace-pcmanfm output when GIMP crashed. Maybe someone would like to ponder that? I tailed the last 500k (60mb) lines to a new file. That's 21 seconds worth before I ctrl-breaked out of strace (which I did within 3-5 seconds of GIMP crashing). Remember, the console (stderr) was being captured too. (I don't think I could differentiate that output if I saw it in there.). If there's a place I could upload that, let me know. (I can post it to the bug report. I was thinking this is kind of different and related more to my speculation here.).
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