-----Original Message----- From: "Kenneth Downs"<ken@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 14/05/06 21:31:15 To: "pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"<pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] GUI Interface > Florian G. Pflug wrote: > > However, I figured out that if you press ALT-<key> with <key> being the > > shortcut for some menu _directly_ after the freeze, the menu opens, and > Wow this is good to know. > I'm also glad to know I'm not the only person this is happening to. Kenneth; what platform are you running on, and ehich window manager are you using? Regards, Dave -----Unmodified Original Message----- Florian G. Pflug wrote: > Tino Wildenhain wrote: > >> Kenneth Downs schrieb: >> >>> Dave Page wrote: >>> >>>> On my linux box, it also has the dubious honor of being the only >>>> program I have ever seen that can lock X hard, with killing the X >>>> server being the only rescue (if you call that a rescue). It can >>>> connect over networks, but on mine it always seems to hang after >>>> an hour or so, and you have to kill it and restart it. >>>> That's a new one. Any other symptoms? Can you get a backtrace from >>>> a coredump? >>>> >>> The good news is I could not reproduce it. But when it happens >>> again I'll know who to notify. >>> >>> As I recall, the problem would occur in the query analyzer. If >>> there was highlighted text in the top window, and you highlighted a >>> row in the results, and then clicked into the upper window while >>> dragging the mouse, it would freeze the X server. It has happened >>> much much less often lately, but it did happen just two days ago, >>> and it always involves a click-drag situation. >> >> >> Yes, that seems a gtk issue. You mark, then klick accidentaly into >> the marked text (usually to change the mark area) and in the result >> you are dragging the text to nowhere. pgadmin and X freezes in this >> case. However you can login via another box and just kill pgadmin >> to unfreeze. Maybe there is a problem with how drag & drop >> is/isnt handled by the code? I have no idea. > > It only happens in pgAdmin III, though, so it must be some strange > interaction between wxWindows and GTK. I believe that the window manager > is part of the problem too, because I've used KDE (together with kwin) > for the last few years, and while it had this freezing-problem > initially, it went away with some update. I believed that a wx or > pgadmin update solved this, but now I'm using Gnome (together with > metacity), and the problem is back... :-( > > However, I figured out that if you press ALT-<key> with <key> being the > shortcut for some menu _directly_ after the freeze, the menu opens, and Wow this is good to know. I'm also glad to know I'm not the only person this is happening to.
