Spent two hours trying to figure out why my X11 window wasn’t getting keyboard focus and input.



It was.

_{...I had just turned off all my debugging output to show it, lol.}

If I had had any other functionality attached to it yet (other than printing some stuff with std::cout) I suppose it would have been pretty clear what was actually wrong...


Ever spend time trying to figure out a bug by looking at the wrong piece of code?

My best (worst?) is a measly three days or so, back before C was standardized and I didn’t know what lint was, trying to find a missing }.

Good to know experienced programmers make mistakes too, gives me hope after all.
My PC just crashed recently after a forced Win update.

Heh, I told Windows to take a hike.

I’m very happily running Linux Mint now. I feel a whole lot more in control of my OS now. (There are downsides to that, though!)