Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Sep 15 18:28:43 UTC 2008


Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Denis Leroy <denis at poolshark.org> wrote:
>> I occasionally run into a Gnome app bug where drag'n'drop "hangs" the
>> desktop (the "drag" never "drops", sort of) where the only way out is
>> ctrl-alt-f1 to mingetty and killall the user-space app. Without mingetty,
>> ctrl-alt-del is the only other option (i.e. loose all unsaved documents).
> 
> We should make Ctrl-Alt-Backspace just break server grabs instead of
> killing the server (and of course fix the bugs in the apps that hang
> while holding a server grab).

I hear the magic key to kill server grabs is going away in new X (maybe 
already has)... which is a pity, because something on my desktop 
occasionally grabs the mouse and won't let go.

So... I'm in favor of a 'break grabs' key enabled by default :-).

-- 
Matthew
"NT was a marketing name that stood for New Technology, but it was still 
an amusing coincidence that WNT was VMS with each letter replaced by the 
next one."
   -- Jeremy Reimer




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