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Troubleshooting Windows Tablets

Tablet glitches are harder to deal with on Windows. Here’s how to help get them fixed.

Troubleshooting Windows Crashes

:umbrella: MyPaint can often keep running if you get an exception.
:boom: This page is about the other kind of fault.
:mag: Keywords: APPCRASH, segfault, backtrace, debugging, Windows, “python2w.exe has stopped working”.

Crashes on Windows

This page explains how you can get good low-level debugging information on Windows with MSYS2. Its goal is to get you confident enough to make a detailed forensic backtrace using the GNU debugger, gdb.