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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
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Subject: Re: GDB cannot access memory after Emacs abort
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Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Actually, these are legit X Windows behavior; they're called 'server
> grabs'.  They're supposed to be rare (for obvious reasons), but if
> Emacs died while it had the server grabbed, you'd certainly not be
> able to interact with the debugger in another window.

You can ungrab the server by typing XF86_Ungrab (assigned to C-A-kp-/ by
default).

Andreas.

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