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Re: Has the memory hole in Xfce been fixed yet?



On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:39:39PM -0500, green wrote:
> On Sun, 2008.06.29, 181, andy wrote:
> > Several months ago, it became apparent from a discussion here (and info 
> > elsewhere) that there was a significant memory leak in Xfce4. I think that 
> > it had something to do with Gtk but couldn't swear to it.
> >
> > Has anyone heard whether that hole has yet been plugged?
> 
> Because of the memory leak(s) I moved to openbox from xfce about a year ago.  
> The memory leak(s) are in the xfdesktop4 package.  According to the BTS, those 
> bugs have not been fixed.
> 
> I'm sorry to see a good lightweight desktop manager go the way of the big ones 
> because of this and am surprised the memory leak(s) still haven't been fixed!
how is openbox



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I THINK THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING in science called the "reindeer effect."
I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say,
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		-- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.

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