Re: Running DDD is getting harder and harder

On 05/06/18 06:30, Žarko Živanov wrote:
> As we updated Ubuntu Linux distributions at classrooms at my faculty, it 
> became evident that DDD isn't running as well as it once was. Most 
> notably, its underlying graphics library gets confused about screen 
> coordinates of source window. Arrow that should point to next line to be 
> executed is drawn between two lines. Right click on line start instead 
> of displaying menu with breakpoint options often displays Print options, 
> and one needs to "hunt" a position on the line where breakpoint menu 
> will appear (trying to click breakpoint icon while the cursor is on the 
> beginning of the line doesnt work either in that case). Clicking on some 
> element of source code places wrong text (usually something before or 
> after text that was clicked on) on the display bar. In short, main 
> interface options of a debugger became almost unusable.
> 
> As we are using DDD in an assembly course, we are now thinking about 
> making our own GUI for GDB tailored just for that purpose. Shame, 
> because DDD was pretty powerful tool, and now, thanks to aging 
> underlying graphics library, slowly becomes unusable.

Try deleting ~/.ddd/init

I found that makes most problems go away.

I even made a script to re-copy a new init every time ddd starts.