This vulnerability is quite annoying if you’re locking your desktop in work or anywhere else. In short, one is able to kill xorg’s xscreensaver’s lock by just pressing alt-ctrl-* or alt-ctrl-/ (both * and / need to be from the keypad). A workaround that was posted suggests to modify files in the system. If you …
The problem Kwin crashes when enabling opengl effects. It doesn’t crash immediately but it crashes after specific actions so it is 100% reproducible. For example when exiting from desktop-grid effect. The situation I’m using: Radeon 4870 graphics card (RV770) Kernel 3.1.5 (but seems irrelevant) Open source ATI driver with KMS using Gallium Xorg 1.11.2.902 (but …
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The story Boxes with various kernel versions have weird free memory problems. After examining the memory usage it seems that processes don’t add up to the actual memory that is being used. Taking a look at /proc/meminfo we see something like this: Notice that Slab is about 7.5GB, almost the whole memory (8GB) (!). Slab …
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