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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Debug howto : need help on debugging kio_slave
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-11-12 15:37:39
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On Lundi 12 Novembre 2001 16:25, Eric Devolder wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> As I'm currently trying to write a kio_slave, I need to use some debugging tools.
See kdebase/kioslave/README

> Regarding the use of KdDebug() method, I'm feeling a little bit confused, as I didn't found any good \
> information about it. I've read somewhere that pressing SHIFT+CTRL+F12 on any kde application would \
> raise a debug window, which is not the case on my environment.
That's very old. This has been turned into a separate "kdebugdialog" program, since... a long time ago.
If you can find where you read that, it'd be good to fix that information ;)

> If someone can indicate me how to get this valuable information... I've also found an application which \
> is into the kdebase package of my distribution, kdebugdialog. Seems to be a mean to adjust what debug \
> output should be taken into account. But I don't know where this output can be seen.
In ~/.xsession-errors if you start X using xdm.
Or simply restart kdeinit in a terminal, typing "kdeinit", you'll see the output there.

> The kio_slave is probably not the easiest application to debug, as it is loaded as a dynamic library. \
> So if someone has some experience with that kind of soft & gdb, I would be *very* happy.
Once it's launched you can break into it with gdb.

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