xfwm4: alt+tab holds the system and probably leaks memory

[Olivier]

Brian,

Makes perfectly sense, it's in CVS now.

Thanks ;)

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 11:36, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Olivier wrote:
> 
> >As for a mem leak, I'll check. Last time I checked, valgrind didn't
> >report any mem leak.
> >
> yeah, i'm seeing it too.  it's rather small.  i think you're not freeing the GdkPixbuf that gets returned for the app icon.  client.c:3540, you call getAppIcon() as an argument to tabwinCreate().  getAppIcon() uses gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data(), which allocates memory for the pixel data.  tabwin.c:105, tabwinCreate() calls tabwinSetLabel(), which calls gtk_image_set_from_pixbuf().  after that call, it needs a g_object_unref() on the pixbuf, as the GtkImage will grab a reference of its own.  i could be missing something, of course, since i'm not so familiar with the xfwm4 codebase, but i think i'm right.
> 
> 	-brian
> 
> 
> >Cheers,
> >Olivier.
> >
> >On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 10:55, Eduard Roccatello wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hello friends,
> >>keeping alt+tab pressed hold all the X processes (eg. xmms stop playing
> >>while pressed). Benny told me it's a linux related issue.
> >>Memory usage also grow when cycling icons so maybe a mem leak in it.
> >>
> >>Oliver, can you confirm this behaviour?
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>    
> >>
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