Re: [Ayatana-dev] Debugging Unity-2d QML

[Ugo Riboni <ugo.riboni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I was hoping that it would be possible to get the Qt Creator QML debugger to
> attach to an already running process like the unity-2d-spread process, in a
> similar way to gdb attaching to a process. It turns out that there isn't an
> option to do that. So my current plan is to attempt to hack the Qt Creator
> code to add that feature. My worry is that, even after doing that, I still
> wouldn't find out what was causing bug #753269. But I can't think of a better
> plan of attack - does anyone have any suggestions?

Hi Richard,
One suggestion I can give you is that instead of trying to attach the 
debugger to a running unity-2d-spread process you can kill the existing 
one (it won't be respawn by the session) and launch a new one via the 
debugger.

Hope it helps,
--
Ugo