On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 05:53:03PM +1000, Steffen Kluge wrote: > On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 05:36, Joshua Andrews wrote: > > I don't think it is a driver issue more like a KDE window manager issue. > > > > As I said it is hard to describe; the window title bars seem to > > dissapear and all workspaces get crammed into one, the kicker or panel > > deal becomes hidden or useless --like I said chaos. The pointer still > > works with whatever menus are present . > > Yes, it very much sounds like your wm died. > How much memory and swap space is there on this system? The Gimp can use piles of virtual memory and as a side effect cause the X server to get big as well. run "free" in a loop or "top" in a small font window and watch things. Since it is easy to add swap files to increase the total set of virtual memory pages do some homework on how (see swapon). -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
