My personal experience has been that the graphical shells to gdb just aren't very good - they are prone to crashing, difficult to use (especially the initial se

My personal experience has been that the graphical shells to gdb just aren't very good - they are prone to crashing, difficult to use (especially the initial setup for a project, and just don't give me enough advantage over good ol' standard gdb to bother. I usually pair that up with a cscope style tool running in another terminal so that I can browse the source code to see what's going on, find function names to set breakpoints on etc. It works pretty well.