[kde-linux] losing icons

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> wrote:
> Jerome Yuzyk posted on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:08:44 -0700 as excerpted:
> > I am running KDE 3.5.10 on Fedora 8. Lately, I have been losing icons
> > here and there. Mostly web favicons in my Konquiror Bookmarks list and
> > toolbars, and they come back sometimes. But this evening the Kopete
> > icon in the System Tray is gone. Kopete is still there, but there's a
> > blank space. My system has been up over 400 days - could that be it?
> > Or symptom of a larger looming problem?
>
> That sounds like a slow xorg resource leak.  You mention a 400 day
> uptime.  Is KDE/X up for long periods or do you shut X down and return
> to the command prompt sometimes?  That's what I'd do here, quit and
> restart X and kde.  That way you don't lose your uptime since it's only
> X that you're quitting and restarting, not the entire system.

Yes I keep X/KDE running from boot to reboot, and I'm used to long uptimes 
so maybe after all this time I'm hitting some X leakage or limitation. 
Perhaps a sign I should restart X before it forces me to from hanging or 
crashing. Thanks!