Re: Some action methods freeze X input

[Stephen Perry]

On 2004-02-22 06:37:17 +0000 Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@debian.org> wrote:

> On 2004-02-21 20:21:42 -0800 Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. 
> <rogelio@smsglobal.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> > | Button in GNUstep apps remains pushed down and all X events to 
> > *any*
> > | application are frozen. Only thing I can do is to move mouse 
> > around.
> > | I can not even click on other app windows, neither move windows
> > | around. It seems to me that -gui is locking all events while
> > | performing an action method.
> >
> > Yes im experiencing that too. When GNUMail starts downloading my new
> > emails everything freezes. It looks that way but wmClock still works.
> > Its only now i realize that its all the inputs are frozen.
>
> Ironically, Rogelio's e-mail triggered it on my machine, due to 
> GNUmail's 
> attempt to validate his signature via GPG.  While this was taking 
> place, the 
> system froze for me.
>
> I have seen this behavior several times over the last week or so.

I see this behaviour quite frequently with GNUmail with both CVS and 
the last releases of the GNUstep libraries. It's most noticable for me 
when using finding messages in a large IMAP mailbox or when copying 
messages to or from IMAP mailboxes. Recent versions of GNUMail have 
much improved IMAP support and so this problem may be less noticable.  
I guess it's still there though...


steve.



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