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+   <meta name="Author" content="Johannes Sixt">
+   <title>KDbg - User's Manual - Global Options</title>
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+<p><a href="index.html">Contents</a></p>
+<h1>
+Global Options Dialog</h1>
+<p>To specify some global options, choose <i>Settings|Global Options</i>. You
+can set the following:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>
+the command by which gdb is invoked,</li>
+
+<li>
+the command that opens a terminal for the program's output,</li>
+
+<li>
+whether the KDbg shall pop into the foreground when the program stops and
+a timeout when it shall go back again,</li>
+
+<li>
+the tab width,</li>
+
+<li>
+filters for source file names.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>
+How to invoke gdb</h4>
+
+<blockquote>If you want to use a different version of gdb, you can specify
+it under
+<i>How to invoke GDB</i>. The default command is <tt>gdb --fullname
+--nx</tt>. Be sure to also specify these options if you change the gdb
+executable. If you leave them away, KDbg will not work. If you messed up
+the entry, you can clear it to revert to the default setting.</blockquote>
+
+<h4>
+How to invoke a terminal emulator</h4>
+
+<blockquote>If you want to use a different terminal program to show the
+output of the program, specify it under <i>Terminal for program output</i>.
+The default setting is <tt>xterm -name kdbgio -title %T -e sh -c %C</tt>.
+In this entry,
+<tt>%T</tt> will be replaced by a title string, <tt>%C</tt>
+will be replaced by a Bourne shell script that loops infinitely so that
+the terminal window doesn't close. (No, it doesn't use CPU, it calls <tt>sleep
+3600</tt> in a loop :) An alternative for this setting could be <tt>konsole
+--name kdbgio --caption %T -e sh -c %C</tt>.</blockquote>
+
+<h4>
+Pop into foreground</h4>
+
+<blockquote>You can specify whether the KDbg window shall move itself into
+the foreground as soon as the program being debugged stops (at a breakpoint
+or due to a signal). The KDbg window is not activated, however (at least
+under KWM, the KDE window manager). Some users may feel that this behavior
+is intrusive, so this option is off by default.</blockquote>
+
+<blockquote>If this option is on, KDbg will also retreat itself into the
+background when the program is continued by any command, but it does so
+only after a timeout that can be specified. This avoids that the debugger
+window flashes back and forth each time you click any of the <i>Step</i>
+commands.</blockquote>
+
+<h4>
+File filters</h4>
+
+<blockquote>You can specify wildcards for source files and header files,
+which are used in the file dialog of the <i>File|Open Source</i>
+command.</blockquote>
+
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