This command does not depend on i3 (it also works while i3 displays
the crash dialog), but it requires a working X11 connection.
-== Compiling with debug symbols
+== On crashes: Obtaining a backtrace
+
+When i3 crashes, it will display a dialog stating “i3 just crashed”, offering
+you to save a backtrace to a text file.
To actually get useful backtraces, you should make sure that your version of i3
is compiled with debug symbols:
symbols (package +i3-wm-dbg+ on Debian for example) or if you can turn off
stripping. If nothing helps, please build i3 from source.
-== Obtaining a backtrace
-
Once you have made sure that your i3 is compiled with debug symbols and the C
debugger +gdb+ is installed on your machine, you can let i3 generate a
backtrace in the crash dialog.