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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Kwin freezes
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-05-30 22:48:00
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On Tue, 30 May 2000, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Matt Koss wrote:
> > For over a week I experience a strange bug.
> > When I close the last window on the desktop, kwin freezes.
> > I have to quit X immediately( or kill kwin from outside ), because
> > otherwise it locks my PC completely.
> >
> > That last  application quits properly, but in the place of the last
> > window kwin leaves a grey rectangle.
>
> I'm experiencing exactly the same problem. As far as I debugged/tested it
> I think that kwin segfaults somewhere. This results in drkonqi to be
> called, which tries to open up a new window. Oooops, a new window, and
> kwin is semi-dead? -> freeze
>
> My "workaround" was to set the KDE_DEBUG environment variable before
> launching KDE. This at least doesn't kill your whole X if kwin
> crashes. And then you can still do a "DISPLAY=:0.0 kwin &" from a vt ;-)
>
> But that's of course no solution ;-)

Add a setenv("KDE_DEBUG", "true", 1) to kwin or add an intellligent 
crash-handler to kwin.

Cheers,
Waldo

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