Re: [RP] Crash bug in ratpoison+xinerama

[Shawn Betts]

Cameron Patrick <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Just been experimenting with writing scripts to save/restore framesets
> and it seems as though with Xinerama, it's quite easy to get ratpoison
> to segfault if you're not too careful.  In particular, trying to
> frestore a window that's already visible on another head is recipe for
> disaster.  Ratpoison also doesn't check that the size of the window is
> less than the size of the monitor, although I'm inclined to think that
> this could be a feature as it gives people who really want to have
> windows crossing screen boundaries a way to (clumsily) achieve this.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have the time to track down what's causing the
> crashes myself at the moment. :-(

If you could attach gdb to rp, crash it, and get a backtrace, that
would help immensely. Incidentally, I remember committing a patch and
noting that I had never tested fdump & frestore with it :). Somehow
I'm not surprised it crashes..

-Shawn