mem leeks

Mathias Brodala info at noctus.net
Tue May 8 23:37:48 CEST 2007


Hi Brian.

Brian J. Tarricone, 08.05.2007 23:00:
> On Tue, 08 May 2007 22:08:23 +0200 Mathias Brodala wrote:
> 
>> What I could see in the short time I did run it through valgrind was,
>> that each time an application is launched from the desktop menu, a
>> small amount of bytes gets lost unrecoverable.
> 
> Hmm, now that's interesting.  Do you know if the apps in question
> support startup notification?

I guess most of mine do.

> The easiest way to check is, right after
> you click the menu icon, the mouse cursor should turn into the
> pointer-with-hourglass, and then it should go back to a normal pointer
> when the app starts.  (You'll probably only see the pointer change
> while hovering over the desktop.)  And, do you see the same memory loss
> when launching apps that do *not* support startup notification?

I actually haven’t checked the checkbox for startup notification in
xfce4-menueditor anywhere. If I do so, valgrind stays quiet about those
applications.

I’ll activate the boxes everywhere now just in case.


Regards, Mathias

-- 
debian/rules

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 252 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/attachments/20070508/6fe53f8d/attachment.pgp>


More information about the Xfce mailing list