the GIMP causing corruption in X
T. Nifty Hat Mitchell
mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jun 29 05:49:01 UTC 2004
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 05:53:03PM +1000, Steffen Kluge wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 05:36, Joshua Andrews wrote:
> > I don't think it is a driver issue more like a KDE window manager issue.
> >
> > As I said it is hard to describe; the window title bars seem to
> > dissapear and all workspaces get crammed into one, the kicker or panel
> > deal becomes hidden or useless --like I said chaos. The pointer still
> > works with whatever menus are present .
>
> Yes, it very much sounds like your wm died.
>
How much memory and swap space is there on this system?
The Gimp can use piles of virtual memory and as a side effect cause
the X server to get big as well. run "free" in a loop or "top" in a
small font window and watch things.
Since it is easy to add swap files to increase the total set of
virtual memory pages do some homework on how (see swapon).
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