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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: rms@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk>
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:41:42 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> 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'm not going to run every program on my system under the debugger
> forevermore on the off chance that the program might crash!

You just reiterated what you said before, but didn't explain why.  Can
you say why you don't like the idea?  I tried to point out that a
debugger will stay out of your way as long as the program runs
normally, so you should not see any ill effects.