Okay, I've determined that this new behavior is still just a symptom of expose events not occurring. Still curious why expose events don't happen when the program is bg'd but on-screen, though. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lindley M French <lfrench1@xxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:07 pm Subject: Odd Linux behavior > About a month ago I posted that my GTK+ app stopped getting expose > events when I bg'd the app in Linux. Got no response, though. > > Well, it seems to be worse than that. > > I'm running the program through Putty from a Windows machine. If I > minimize the main window, or even just lock the screen, > *something* stops working. Can't say for sure what it is, but I've > got a console program which periodically sends the GUI updates via > pipes, and I left the combo running last night with the screen > locked.....and zero progress was made. I get in this morning, > unlock the screen, and it starts going again. > > This can only mean that the pipes are filling up and not being > emptied, which means that *something* is blocking unexpectedly in > the GUI. > > Does anyone have the first clue what I should be looking for to > fix this? I'm using GTK+ 2.12. > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list