Hi, I'm also affected by this bug with ubuntu 9.10. Maybe it goes faster to trigger in my case as I have 2 monitors.
It could be related to kdelibs as i installed them to be able to use Kate. And I noticed that kate used 1 client connection for each file opened as a tab in my kate window. Closing a kate with 3 tabs reduced my xlsclients | wc -l from 44 to 38 removing 4 kates and 2 knotify4. Isn't there a tweak to change xlsclients max value ? Because 56 looks really small regarding all the mandatories applications in my ubuntu system: user-desktop kate user-desktop gnome-session user-desktop gnome-settings-daemon user-desktop seahorse-daemon user-desktop notify-osd user-desktop gnome-panel user-desktop nautilus user-desktop trashapplet user-desktop update-notifier user-desktop gdu-notification-daemon user-desktop tracker-applet user-desktop gnome-volume-control-applet user-desktop gnome-power-manager user-desktop nm-applet user-desktop bluetooth-applet user-desktop polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 user-desktop gtk-window-decorator user-desktop indicator-applet-session user-desktop indicator-applet user-desktop evolution-alarm-notify user-desktop applet.py user-desktop gstm user-desktop thunderbird-bin user-desktop xchat user-desktop gnome-terminal user-desktop putty user-desktop firefox-bin user-desktop '<unknown>' user-desktop kded4 user-desktop kded4 user-desktop '<unknown>' user-desktop knotify4 user-desktop knotify4 user-desktop '<unknown>' user-desktop kwalletd user-desktop kwalletd user-desktop gedit user-desktop LaCieNetworkAssistant user-desktop grdc user-desktop gnome-screensaver user-desktop '<unknown>' user-desktop kate user-desktop kate user-desktop kate user-desktop kate -- apps-wont-open-due-to-maximum-clients-reached-error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263211 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs