diff -up gnome-applets-2.23.90/gswitchit/gswitchit-applet.c.keyboard-applet-leak gnome-applets-2.23.90/gswitchit/gswitchit-applet.c
--- gnome-applets-2.23.90/gswitchit/gswitchit-applet.c.keyboard-applet-leak	2008-08-29 21:29:30.000000000 -0400
+++ gnome-applets-2.23.90/gswitchit/gswitchit-applet.c	2008-08-29 21:29:34.000000000 -0400
@@ -151,14 +151,17 @@ GSwitchItAppletSetBackground (PanelApple
 
 	/* go down */
 	if (GTK_IS_CONTAINER (w)) {
-		GList *child =
+                GList *child;
+		GList *children =
 		    gtk_container_get_children (GTK_CONTAINER (w));
+		child = children;
 		while (child != NULL) {
 			GSwitchItAppletSetBackground (applet,
 						      GTK_WIDGET (child->
 								  data));
 			child = child->next;
 		}
+		g_list_free (children);
 	}
 }