[kde-linux] kwin needs 300M?

Alex Schuster wonko at wonkology.org
Tue Nov 22 12:01:39 UTC 2011


Dale writes:

> Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:25:46 AM Alex Schuster
>> <wonko at wonkology.org>  wrote:

[kwin needs up to 1.4G]

>>> This still happens with 4.7.3 on Gentoo Linux.
>> I came across this:
>>
>>      kwin --replace&
>>
>> It tells kwin to replace itself with itself. Works for me, the screen
>> refreshes and panels reload and a couple apps were un-minimized but memory
>> dropped instantly and it's a lot easier than logging out and in.

Wow, that's great! I just hate to log out and restart all my stuff that
was running. Thanks!

> When I did this, it went all wonky.  I went from 8 desktops to one and 
> all my apps went to the one desktop.  Other than all that, it worked 
> fine.  LOL
> 
> Now to logout and back in again to fix all this.  :/

Wow, that's bad! I just hate to fix things like this. That's why I back
up my .kde directory so often.

I will try this in a couple of days when I am back at my desktop.

	Wonko



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