[Gambas-user] system has hung a lot recently.

[BB]

Alt-F7 or Alt-F8 should take you back to the desktop

Alt-F1 to Alt-F6 are virtual terminals, the desktop usually runs on vt7 
but it can vary. Read up on /etc/inittab

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On 12/1/23 7:49 am, Bruce Steers wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, 21:06 Benoit Minisini, 
> <benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org 
> <mailto:benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org>> wrote:
>
>     Le 11/01/2023 à 20:11, Benoit Minisini a écrit :
>     > Le 11/01/2023 à 19:31, Bruce Steers a écrit :
>     >> Has anyone else been finding their system frozen while debugging
>     >> gambas projects?
>     >>
>     >> It's happened to me a lot of late , to the point i'm emailing here
>     >> about it now.
>     >> It seems to happen when error in a menu handler and it happens
>     with
>     >> the attached project.
>     >>
>     >> What happens..
>     >> On error the debugger shows the normal msg and red line of text
>     etc..
>     >> but I no longer have any input control.  mouse clicks and
>     keyboard do
>     >> nothing.
>     >> The pointer moves around the screen but i cannot click anything.
>     >> All i can do is hold down the power button and hard reset.
>     >
>     > On X11, if a popup menu is opened, all keyboard and mouse events
>     are
>     > captured by the popup window. It's called "keyboard and mouse grab".
>     >
>     > Normally, I added a mechanism in the Qt and GTK+ component to
>     release
>     > grabs when the debugger wakes up. But it seems to not be very
>     reliable.
>     > I will check with your project.
>     >
>     > Anyway, when falling into that trap, you don't have to reboot.
>     You can
>     > hit ALT+F2 (or ALT+F3...) to open a Linux console, log in from
>     there,
>     > and kill the debugged process. In that case, X11 will automatically
>     > release the grab.
>     >
>     > I don't know if the behaviour is the same with Wayland.
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     >
>
>     OK, I confirm that the automatic grab release works with 'gb.qt5' but
>     not with 'gb.gtk3'.
>
>
> Thank you Ben.
> Yes thinking about I had the ide in qt but testing the crash the 
> loaded prog may have loaded gtk. 🙄
>
> And cheers for the tip. Seemed ctrl-alt-f3 was the only keyboard 
> response I got, that opened a full screen terminal it from there all I 
> could do was reboot as I couldn't figure out how to get back to the 
> desktop.
>
> But was nicer to run the reset command than hold power button down.
>
> Respects
> BruceS
>
>
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