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.