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thunar opens so many x-clients cannot open other apps
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED

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Description Larry Johnson 2015-09-12 19:22:16 CEST
Created attachment 6456 
output of xlsclients

Error message: ]$ xlsclients
Maximum number of clients reachedxlsclients:  unable to open display ":0.0"

executing "killall thunar" resolves the maximum clients problem

attached xlsclients output
Comment 1 Larry Johnson 2015-09-12 20:03:36 CEST
Stopping recoll from starting indexing at login and starting it after login manually does not start an excessive number of x-clients.
Comment 2 pdtwonotes 2015-09-22 21:46:53 CEST
Probably the same root cause as this:  when I plug in an external USB drive the entire system hangs for a few minutes.   Checking the log afterwards shows a lot of messages like

Sep 18 08:46:33 crescendo slim[482]: Maximum number of clients reachedthunar-volman: Cannot open display: .
Sep 18 08:46:37 crescendo slim[482]: Maximum number of clients reached
Sep 18 08:46:37 crescendo slim[482]: ** (thunar-volman:4246): WARNING **: Could not open X display

Many of these messages are logged every second.  The popup notification that the drive has been mounted does not appear until the looping has stopped.

This is not at login time, but any time later.  Thunar-volman version 0.8.1-1 on Arch.
Comment 3 Larry Johnson 2016-01-16 01:48:45 CET
A recent change in behavior.

How there are 209 instances of Thunar that are started when the X starts, without recoll indexing running, one of which is the daemon. 

[--ljohnson{16:46:30}~]$ pacman -Qss thunar
local/thunar 1.6.10-2 (xfce4)
    Modern file manager for Xfce
local/thunar-archive-plugin 0.3.1-5 (xfce4-goodies)
    Create and extract archives in Thunar
local/thunar-media-tags-plugin 0.2.1-2 (xfce4-goodies)
    Adds special features for media files to the Thunar File Manager
local/thunar-volman 0.8.1-1 (xfce4)
    Automatic management of removeable devices in Thunar
Comment 4 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-26 23:24:19 CEST
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Bug #12210

Reported by:
Larry Johnson
Reported on: 2015-09-12
Last modified on: 2020-05-26

People

Assignee:
Xfce Bug Triage
CC List:
4 users

Version

Version:
1.6.10

Attachments

output of xlsclients (3.61 KB, text/plain)
2015-09-12 19:22 CEST , Larry Johnson
no flags

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