Anonymous
BASELINE:
Login to a rox-icewm session. ( rox-, and also repeat for spacefm- )
Check the memory usage (ps_mem.py or whatever you’re using) attributed to the icon manager process.
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TEST #1:
login to a plain icewm session and manually start
spacefm --desktop
and/or
rox --pinboard=antiX-icewm
then check the result (ps_mem.py or whatever you’re using)
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TEST #2: ( rox-, and also repeat for spacefm- )
login to a rox-icewm session and
killall rox
then, from terminal emulator commandline, manually launch
rox --pinboard=antiX-icewm
and check the result (ps_mem.py or whatever you’re using)
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TEST #3:
login to a plain icewm session.
Use DesktopMenu –} OtherDesktops –} rox-icewm
( or from terminal emulator commandline: /usr/local/lib/desktop-session/desktop-session-restart Rox-IceWM )
to switch to a rox-icewm session.
Check the result (ps_mem.py or whatever you’re using)
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The results of these tests indicate that the high memory usage is related to launching the icon managers via desktop-session run
What has changed?
For starters, GNU bash 5.0 may have introduced some incompatible changes/quirks…