Re: GNUstep or X11 Problem

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi all,

> I have discovered a serious problem on our GNUstep desktop and am not 
> sure - actually I have absolutely no idea - whether this is a bug in 
> GNUstep back or a general problem of X11.
>
> I start two GNUstep applications. In the first app I click on a button 
> knowing that the operation behind the button takes approximately 10s 
> to complete (some kind of complex export). During these 10s I can do 
> absolutely nothing on my desktop. Under MacOS X I am used to simply 
> activate another application in the meantime e.g. Mail.app or do some 
> stuff in a terminal session. I of course can do nothing in application 
> A as long as its main thread is performing some operation. But on 
> MacOSX I can simply activate another app by clicking on its window and 
> stay productive. Not so on my GNUstep desktop. I tried that with 
> Window Maker, Enlightenment and GNOME and got the same problem with 
> all three window managers. :-(
>
> I suppose, this is a general issue of X11. Can anybody with more 
> insight confirm this? Or is this a problem in GNustep back?

I have looked closer into this problem. This does not seem to be an X11 
issue. I just discovered that after starting the long operation in the 
the first GNUstep application I can switch to e.g. Window Maker 
Preferences or xterm and then to another GNUstep application. I just 
can't switch directly from GNUsteo app to GNUstep app. This definitely 
looks like a problem in GNUstep not a general issue of X11. Hope is 
coming back... :-)

Any idea, what is preventing the GNUstep to GNUstep app switch?

Regards,

  Andreas