Re: Emacs exited with message “X protocol error: BadPixmap”

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk>
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:20:53 +0100
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> Sorry, I'm not going to run Emacs under GDB indefinitely just on the
> off chance Emacs will crash.

Why not?  As long as Emacs doesn't crash, you will not notice any
difference in behavior or performance--GDB is simply invisible until
there's some event that is noteworthy for the debugger.

> I depend on programs to leave core dump files when they crash.

Debugging a core file has limitations that debugging a live program
(even if it crashed) does not.  Some of the GDB features do not work
with core files.