<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Joel Feiner wrote: <blockquote cite="mid78dd15b90612060728k62e5f55fqe75a5f87b6a0c998@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre> I know many other people are using it, based on talk on the Gentoo forums, btw. </pre> </blockquote> Yes, and I like it too, but see the discussion for instance here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150348">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150348</a> especially the last comment: ------- Comment <a name="c5" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150348#c5">#5</a> From <a href="mailto:leio@gentoo.org">Mart Raudsepp</a> 2006-10-07 16:34 PST <script type="text/javascript"></script>[<a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150348#add_comment" onclick="replyToComment(5);">reply</a>] ------- <pre id="comment_text_5">xcompmgr is a proof of concept. It is known to leak things into X memory, and upstream to my knowledge doesn't really care about it as that's what it is - a proof of concept, not meant for daily usage. However I use it myself, and if someone would step up and help upstream patch or maintain it, I'd be glad myself :) </pre> googling xcompmgr memory leak turned up a few other things, including people who are 99% sure that the leaks only happen when the fading options are turned on. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="80">-- Mike Russo ReadQ Systems, Inc. (212) 425 3680 x105 Random quote of the last-time-I-ran-bash: "Ah, you know the type. They like to blame it all on the Jews or the Blacks, 'cause if they couldn't, they'd have to wake up to the fact that life's one big, scary, glorious, complex and ultimately unfathomable crapshoot -- and the only reason THEY can't seem to keep up is they're a bunch of misfits and losers." -- an analysis of neo-Nazis and such, Badger comics </pre> </body> </html>