Question

I know I can open a new frame and M+xgdb. But just doing M+xgdb and having gdb executed in a new frame would be much better.

gdb-many-windows destroy original windows layout when I run it and it can not restore the layout when I kill it. So I want to run it in a new frame and close that frame.

Update: I use (setq gdb-many-windows t). If I invoke gdb, it uses the gdb-many-windows layout automatically.

Answer 1

Here is a simple function to call gdb with many windows in a newly created frame:

(defun my-gdb-other-frame ()
  (interactive)
  (select-frame (make-frame))
  (call-interactively 'gdb))

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Another way I use to solve the window layout problem with gdb-many-windows is to save the different windows configurations to registers. FWIW, here is my workflow:

1. C-xrwa (save window configuration to register a)

2. M-xgdbRET

3. M-xgdb-many-windowsRET

4. C-xrwb (save the new window configuration to register b)

Afterwards, I can jump from one window layout to the other using C-xrja and C-xrjb