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Re:The State of Linux Debuggers by drosan on Sunday December 13, 2020 @03:59PM (#25410215)
> The text boxes for eg the memory window ... didn't consistently accept keypresses at all

Old Motif/X apps follow "focus on mouse hover" principle, so you can modify text fields only when there is a mouse cursor on them.

Re:The State of Linux Debuggers by jamii on Sunday December 13, 2020 @08:33PM (#25412460)
I can't believe this comment ended up dead - that was the correct answer. I had more success with ddd this time around.