On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:13:56 -0400, Todd O'Bryan wrote > I guess the thing we really need to do is push for some kind of standard > way of saying how aggressive you want applications to be when they store > pixmaps. Ideally, there should be some way to just tell applications not > to store pixmaps at all, but to just display the pixels. > > I had a whole classroom freeze when students tried to create OO > presentations. They could paste an image onto a slide, but as soon as > they tried to crop it, the client died a pretty spectacular death. > > Any possibility that we could push for a --nopixmaps or --limitpixmaps > option for most programs? > > Todd
Good news is I think a fix for Firefox is just around the corner. Two of the major Firefox developers have now jumped on the threads as well and seem to have a plan in place and say that implementing user modifiable setting for max pixmap storage is trivial and that there should already be a way to disable. Between what they are looking at doing along with some version of Federico's patch for setting a discard timer, things are looking good. To follow along see these bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395260 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296818 I have also seen some pretty decent discussion from the xorg mailing list on how this could be dealt with globally to not allow any application to crash the Xserver. However this still won't keep OpenOffice running. So I think next week I start bombarding OpenOffice mailing lists. Anyhow I think things are finally looking up. Jim -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean. -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
