X11 mouse themes cause memory leak

[Eric Anholt]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 19:21, Andrew Muhametshin wrote:
> Beforehand forgive me for my English as I do not know English, I am 
> compelled to use the electronic translator.
> 
> X11 Mouse Themes cause memory leak(outflow of memory) in the Xorg/XFree, 
> at use of the GTK2 graphic programs, but not QT programs.
> 
> To reproduce a mistake it is possible so:
> 1. Choose any Xcursor Themes, possible: 
> "http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=5507"
> 2. In the program "gqview-1.4.X" to increase(zoom) the image, that it 
> would leave far beyond(outside) a window.
> 3. And to move(dragging) the image(long time), observing for behaviour 
> Xorg/Xfree.
> 
> It is a problem it is shown in:
> FreeBSD-5.1, 5.2.1,  4.9
> Xorg-6.7
> Xfree86-4.3, 4.4
> Gtk2
> GQview 1.4.X (making with gtk2)
> This mistake(memory leak) is shown only in the FreeBSD, but not in the 
> linux.
> Nevertheless I saw(I have found) a similar problem 
> on:"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31982"

At least one memory leak with Xcursor has been fixed upstream.  It'll be
fixed in the next X.Org release (1 week).  Of course, this could have
been fixed by now by using the newest Xcursor library, but we're still
using the monolithic tree.

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