[551] in Zephyr_Bugs
Re: built zwgc, but still crashed on kill client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Forsyth)
Mon Aug 29 10:51:08 1994
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 10:50:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: bill.forsyth@fi.gs.com (Bill Forsyth)
In-Reply-To: Derek Atkins <warlord@bluebox-14.mit.edu>
"Re: built zwgc, but still crashed on kill client" (Aug 27, 5:48pm)
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@bluebox-14.mit.edu>,
bill.forsyth@fi.gs.com (Bill Forsyth)
Cc: zephyr-bugs@MIT.EDU, forsyth@fi.gs.com
On Aug 27, 5:48pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Subject: Re: built zwgc, but still crashed on kill client
> Hi.
>
> The quick solution is use a real windowmanager! ;-)
>
> The real solution is to educate your users in how to use zwgc, and
> edit the windowmanager configuration to not include a titlebar on
> zephyrgram windows.
>
> I believe what is happening is that the windowmanager is sending a
> killwindow to the Xserver, and zwgc is interpretting that as a
> killclient, and exiting. Zwgc only opens up a single window
> connection to the Xserver and just maps multiple windows, so when you
> get a killwindow, it doesn't really know whether this means that you
> want the zephyrgram to go away or if the Xserver is dying and is
> telling zwgc to die.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -derek
>
> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, G MIT Media Laboratory
> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
> Home page: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/warlord/home_page.html
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>-- End of excerpt from Derek Atkins
Thanks, I was looking in the general doc (not the man pages) and didn't
see any changes.
When I looked at the X_gram.c code I noticed you had added
the EnableDelete and Transient resources, which fixed the problem for me
(after I enabled them, because they are disabled be default).
--- Bill
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