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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:27:32AM +0100, Nix wrote:
> 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...)

After blogging about this work, someone went ahead & wrote this exact
function for me :-)

http://www.redhat.com/archives/olpc-software/2006-March/msg00032.html


Dan.
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