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

[Tim Dickson]

usually,as you say alt-F1 to alt-F6 are vt's and alt-F7 is for graphical 
gui's
however, more recently, some window session managers, - think  sddm are 
often configured to re-use the tty1 (alt-F1)
so it is worth adding that to the list when attempting to switch back to 
the gui.
regards, Tim

On 11/01/2023 21:24, BB wrote:
>
> 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
>
> b
>
> 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> 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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