[Gllug] Re: What is the Gnome & KDE difference??

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Wed Mar 29 23:27:32 UTC 2006


On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Daniel P. Berrange moaned:
> I did look at xrestop initially, but it unfortunately does not provide
> a way to capture the actual pixmaps associted with a client. So I wrote
> a nasty LD_PRELOAD hack which overrode the XCreatePixmap & XFreePixmaps
> method, dumping the pixmap to a TIFF file. A little post-processing and
> I could visualize all pixmaps stored by mozilla at any time during the
> course of a controlled test-run.

Sounds exceeding nifty. (Of course the *right* way to do this is to add
an XResQueryClientPixmaps() to the XRes extension, but that's a good bit
more work...)

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