Re: NSMenuView patch

[Matt Rice]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
> I just ran into a very annoying problem caused by our mouse capture in
> NSMenuView. When debugging an action method I put a breakpoint into that
> method and ended up with an unusable X windows desktop. The debugger
> would display its command prompt, but the mouse was still captured by
> the GNUstep menu window and I was unable to do anything.
> Looks like a duplicate call to capture actually has an effect only when
> out one is released the mouse will be usable again.
> This should also manifest itself in other cases, for example a modal
> window that gets started from a nested menu item. But I am unable to
> reproduce the issue there. I am not really sure what goes on here.
>
> The annoying bit is that I have to restart X each time I try this :-(

you might try looking up the xorg.conf setting, AllowDeactivateGrabs

it may help depending on if its supported in your X server (has been
varying over the years, haven't tried it recently)

otherwise starting up gdb from the console or ssh and attaching to the
process with --pid

I agree that its annoying, but really I don't think its anything
specific to Greg's patch, I'd run into the same with GNUstep years
ago.