http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28445
--- Comment #4 from Igor Franchuk sprog@online.ru 2011-09-20 13:13:28 CDT --- (In reply to comment #3)
(In reply to comment #2)
This bug happens always when an application has an animated icon. Like The Bat mail client. I mean if an application is redrawing it's icon in the taskbar - this will damage X server and the system. It will lock it down eventually. (it will hang)
How long does it generally take? Do you notice the resource consumption quickly in the system monitor?
The resource leak is immediate. You can see X-Server taking resources right away. Normally X server on my system consumes 6% average, I have many windows opened. When an application with an animated icon is launched the X server average would leap to 10% and it will continue to grow more and more till 100% shortly after 100% is reached it will lock down KDE and alas - you can't even kill xdm - only to reboot. The time required for the complete lock down is about 30 hours.
It looks like that even if you close an application with an animated icon the damage is done to the X-server, it's performance is never back to normal.
... This problem will happen with any similar application which has an animated icon. Not cursor. Let me know if you need to know anything else.
Ah, sorry. In most of Windows animated cursors and icons are essentially identical, there's just a flag that says "this is an icon" and that's all that makes them different. However, that is not the case with the system tray icons
- these icons are really a series of static icons that the application must
manually select in order to make the icon animate.
Yes, it happens with system tray icons. I could rule out KDE if you could name any linux application which is constantly changing icons in the tray. Not like it changes once in an hour but rather a 2-3 changes per second.
It might be not wine problem but KDE.