Monthly Archives: December 2005

applets + pixmaps

December 8, 2005 – 8:45 pm

james, glynn: the situation with some applets is actually a (little bit) bad in terms of pixmap memory use
battstat as an example: in initialise_global_pixmaps, i call gdk_pixmap_create_from_xpm_d a bunch of times to store every pixmap we’ll ever need inside of the x server (on battery, on ac, charging, etc…). this takes up a bunch [...]

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keyboardcast

December 4, 2005 – 3:39 pm

at work i’ve been maintaining a cluster of g5 powermacs. doing simple administrative tasks on them was becoming a challenge. i’d either have to do the task 10 times or, if i was lucky and it was a non-interactive sort of thing, write a script to do it for me.
to this end i [...]

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