Re: [Evolution] more concerns about evo doing the nasty on otherprocesses

[Damon Chaplin <damon ximian com>]

Dan Winship wrote:
> > Is evolution doing something weird to the X server when it dies or is
> > under a big load?
>
> Seems possible. Other people have noticed that Evolution and Nautilus
> seem to make the X server grow improbably large.
>
> X11R5 shipped with a tool whose name I forget that let you sniff an X
> connection and see all the commands and events going back and forth.
> Does anyone know of anything that would let us do that with a modern X
> server?

I've used xmon occasionally to do that. Here's my notes:

  Running xmon to view X calls and events:

  Run "xmonui | xmond" in one xterm
  In another xterm do "xhost +", "export DISPLAY=localhost:1", then run app.


Though I don't think it ever helped me very much.


Damon