Re: application blows up X

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

David Ford <david linux com> writes:
> Markus Lausser wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > I seems that the gtk-theme was the reason for blowing up the X.
> > Now i wonder if i could fix this within my client? I guess not.
> > Am i right?
>
> The theme is broken and needs fixed, but so does X I figure.

Is X supposed to be like "sorry, you can't allocate more than 15
pixmaps, bzzzt?" How would you fix X?

If X is crashing on the other hand, yes it's by definition an X server
bug. Clients can't crash the server if the server is working properly.

Havoc