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- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!gateway!pictel!oj
- From: oj@pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
- Subject: Re: Kills from Window Manager
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.121213.268@pictel.com>
- Organization: PictureTel Corporation
- References: <14b03iINN1kn@early-bird.think.com> <1992Jul24.182031.29532@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <14ptagINNrdo@early-bird.think.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:12:13 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- In article <14ptagINNrdo@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
-
- >...I don't want my window manager automatically upgrading
- >an attempt to delete a single window into an operation that will probably
- >crash the application (most clients don't seem to have customized XIO
- >handlers).
-
- Just to pick a nit ... Most applications with multiple top-level
- windows use just one display connection to operate all their windows.
-
- A customized XIO handler can't help with distinguishing a single-
- window delete operation from an application crash. Once Xlib gets
- around to calling your custom XIO error handler it's too late: the X
- connection and the application's server resources have already been
- destroyed.
-
- Ollie Jones
-