Toot

Written by Andrew Helwer on 2025-01-11 at 21:42

Does anybody know a tutorial for debugging a crash in your desktop environment on Linux? I am mostly interested as an exercise in actually using the “source” part of open source. Like I imagine it requires:

  1. identifying the exact DE version being run

  1. fetching the source of that DE version from somewhere and building it in debug configuration

  1. running that DE with a debugger attached then triggering the crash

The DE aspect makes it weird, like I would have to run it in a VM maybe so the crash doesn’t take down whatever program I’m using to run the debugger too.

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