[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000111]: Xlib: resource ID allocation space exhausted!

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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000111
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Reporter:                   150669tom
Handler:                    
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000111
Category:                   panel
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2004-02-05 10:09 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-02-05 16:18 GMT
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Summary:                    Xlib: resource ID allocation space exhausted!
Description: 
After running XFCE on long terms (longer than 3 days) the panel (ONLY)
disappears on an remote session via xdmcp. 

XFCE 4.03.1 on SuSE Linux 9.0, with precompiled XFCE. 

This error does not occur on XFCE 4.00, but at XFCE 4.01, XFCE 4.02 and
4.03x

Remote PC is WinNT 4 with Reflection 8 X-manager :-(

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 huysmans - 2004-02-05 12:07 GMT 
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Well, I could assign this bug to me, since it is a panel bug, but to be
honest I don't have a clue about what could cause this.

I don't believe the ID allocation problem can be the cause, but I'm not
sure.

If someone has a suggegtion, please let me know. I'll have a look at the
diff from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 to check what was changed

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 150669tom - 2004-02-05 15:51 GMT 
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I have added two samples of my panel, the working version xfce-panel_OK.jpg
and the disappeared (grey colored) xfce-panel_grey.jpg.

The grey one works, I can switch between the desktops, start apps,
background of popups are poping up...

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 kelnos - 2004-02-05 16:18 GMT 
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i've heard of this error happening in other situations, and while i can't
say this with 100% authority, i think this has to do with a mismatch
between the resource ID allocation scheme used by the server and what the
application 'expects' the server to use.  X11R6 is the current version of
the X spec, and an X11R5 server handles resource ID allocation a bit
differently.  the fact that you say that this happens after you've been
running the session for long periods seems to back me up on this.

i don't think this is really an xfce-specific problem.  if anything, it's
a gtk problem with how it expects X to act.  but the real issue is that
i'd bet your X server is just old.

if you can, give it a try using cygwin/xfree86 (free, http://cygwin.com/),
or something else that you can find out is X11R6-compliant.  KeaX comes to
mind (commercial, non-free).