On 2015-06-11 17:20, Michael Butash wrote:
[X reaching a maximum number of clients is a problem] in that it
simply refuses to open new [X clients], and [I] find this happens
more and more these days. Am I like the only actual person to use
linux these days that this occurs with?

I've never seen this happen. What do you get when this is happening and you do "xlsclients | sort | uniq -c" ? I currently have 64 X clients running here. Most KDE things show up as 2 or 3 X clients. plasma-desktop shows up as 20. firefox shows up as 1.

I've seen reports of this, stating it's a hard-coded thing in xorg
code, which I find entirely asinine

It probably seemed like a reasonable assumption back when the X11 protocol was designed that an X client would only make 1 connection to the server, and that having 256 or 512 X clients at once was enough. I don't have the Xorg source here so can't find where this is set, either.

Chrome/Chromium that launches some 300 flocks on various things, and
blows out the 256/512 client count on xorg.

What did you mean by "flocks"? If Chrome creates a separate X client for every browser tab, that'd probably cause stupidity, but I could see it doing that. (Having fewer than 30 tabs open at any given time would fix that if it were the case.)

I have 3 chrome profiles open, some pdfs, libreoffice,
some chrome apps, some file manager windows (dolphin/kde), and not
much else. [...]  am I the only person that really "uses" a linux
desktop to see these?

Obviously not if you found some other people complaining on a search engine. First thing to do is figure out which program is causing the stupidity. I was surprised to see 20 plasma-desktop clients here, because plasma applets are useless and I didn't think I had any of them running at all.

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