[wingide-users] Lockup

On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 20:01, Stephan R.A. Deibel wrote:
> On 11 Jun 2002, Ken Kinder wrote:
> > I have a GTK event handler that does something that raises an IndexError
> > exception. When the debugger stops there, the X server wiggs out and my
> > mouse becomes ineffective until I kill the process I'm debugging. :O
> 
> It sounds like the code you're debugging has done an XGrabPointer or
> XGrabButton.  The grab is not released when you stop at an exception or
> break point, resulting in the behaviour your describe.  This is a real
> pain if you run into it often.  It can also happen to your keyboard with
> XGrabKeyboard.
> 
> If it makes you feel any better, I think gdb has the same problem.
> 
> The soln would be for us to detect the state of the X server and to ungrab
> when in the debugger and re-grab when continuing.  From previously looking
> into this, I think it's not entirely trivial to do this correctly.  I
> suppose we could try to blow away all grabs and ignore the possible
> consequences.
> 
> Suggestions from X experts are more than welcome.
> 

Is there anything I can explicitly do in my code to ungrab? Just
temporarily while I debug?