[clug] Photo viewers?

Robert Edwards bob at cs.anu.edu.au
Tue Jun 19 23:57:14 GMT 2007


David Collett wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:01:57AM +1000, Robert Edwards wrote:
> 
>> I have tried xslideshow, but it segfaults with -animate random,
>> otherwise works fine.
> 
> Sounds like a great opportunity to fix xslideshow! If you can reproduce
> the segfault easily, you might be able to fix it with some debugging, or
> at the very least, submit a detailed bug report to the developer.
> 
> Since I learned gdb, segfaults (in free software) stopped being annoying
> and became a fun challenge instead :)
> 
> Dave

It's a worthwhile challenge - I have never used gdb on code I haven't
compiled myself, so I'll look there, otherwise download the source and
see if I can find out what is going on. Looks like it hasn't been


More information about the linux mailing list