On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 04:12:59PM -0700, Robert Connolly wrote: > Hello. > > I use Xephyr with Firefox. I also run Firefox as a dedicated user. > At seemingly random times, but on a regular basis, Firefox will > behave oddly. Firefox will open links in a new window, scrolling up > or down with my touchpad will cause the tab to go forward or > backward through browser history, and sometimes capslock will be on > when typing in Firefox, even though capslock is off. > > Restarting Firefox does not fix these issues, but restarting Xephyr > does. These issues typically happen when Firefox has been loaded and > idle for many hours, although once it happened after only being > loaded for a few minutes. > > I'm guessing this is a memory corruption bug. Could any of you try > to reproduce this bug, and could any of you suggest some simple ways > (simple like strace) of debugging this? I would like to have > something concrete to report to the Xephyr folks so that it gets > fixed quickly. > > I am running a recent snapshot on an AMD64 with 6GB of memory. I > have no other problems with other software, so I think I can rule > out damaged hardware.
Xephyr in Xenocara (OpenBSD X11) is quite old anyway. Newer Xephyr incorporated long awaiting feature - resizable Xephyr window. jirib
