[Lazarus] IDE problems

[brian]

On 11/25/2013 06:58 PM, Martin Frb wrote:
> On 25/11/2013 23:26, brian wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Something has spontaneously gone wrong with the IDE on my setup. I
>> say spontaneously because I was in the middle of debugging a program
>> when suddenly everything but the source window disappeared. I
>> eventually had to abort Lazarus and re-start the program, but now I
>> see some very strange behaviour :-
>>
>> 1) Pull-down menus stay pulled down, even when I've selected an entry.
>>
>
> This does not sound like a config issue to me.
>
> However, I have seen some Linux, or maybe some of the Destops/Window
> managers getting in trouble, if gdb pauses an application in the wrong
> moment. e.g. in a paint event, or other events (mouse, kbd).
>
> In that case you may have to restart your  desktop session,
> potentially the entire system.
>

The problem has survived a full reboot.


Brian.