On Feb 12, 2008, at 5:02 , Spencer Janssen wrote:
Won't the X server clean them up when the client that created them exits? (the Display file descriptor is set to close on exec, as far as I know)
Hm, right, for some reason I was thinking window managers get privileged behavior (it is certainly possible for windows to outlive their creators, windows and pixmaps are actually shared resources as far as the server is concerned, pixmap leaks are far from unknown, window leaks rarely occur but have been seen occasionally). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH