[Gambas-bugtracker] Bug #2509: GB3 IDE freezes when loading debug profile.

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http://gambaswiki.org/bugtracker/edit?object=BUG.2509&from=L21haW4-

Comment #6 by Benoît MINISINI:

You don't have to modify the source code to choose the GUI component of the IDE. This is what 'gb.gui' does: it chooses the component at runtime according to the current desktop in use or the contents of the GB_GUI environment variable. Moreover, it automatically chooses the corresponding 'gb.*.webview' component.

The Gambas 3 IDE desktop file icon is configured to be run with QT5, QT4, GTK+3, or the current desktop. Maybe XFCE does not handle that, but with Gnome or KDE you have a popup-menu.

But you can do that from a terminal:

$ GB_GUI=gb.qt5 gambas3

Otherwise, if it freezes with 'gb.gtk3' but not with 'gb.qt5, it must be the GTK+3 design bug that breaks the Gambas interpreter process termination signal handler.

But there is a workaround for that bug since commit 7457b4de (just before the 3.17.0 release), so I don't understand while you still get it (and apparently other people don't).