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- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Path: sparky!uunet!telesoft!trevor
- From: trevor@telesoft.com (Trevor Bourget @ignite)
- Subject: Re: Mapping A Window To A Process
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.215936.14232@telesoft.com>
- Organization: TeleSoft, San Diego, CA, USA
- References: <Bx7oBI.5IG@cs.columbia.edu> <1992Nov7.105306.20140@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:59:36 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In <1992Nov7.105306.20140@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
-
- >In article <Bx7oBI.5IG@cs.columbia.edu>,
- >haupt@cs.columbia.edu (Marcus E. Haupt) writes:
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- >> I would like to know if anyone has come across a method to find
- >> the UNIX pid of a process given only a window ID
-
- ...
- Deleted long explanation of why it's so difficult and dirty that
- it's not worth doing.
- ...
-
- If you have a certain set of applications that you care about, you
- can have them put properties (XSetTextProperty) on their top-level
- window indicating useful information like USER and PID.
-
- It would have been nice if these had been part of the WM protocol
- standard (like MACHINE, NAME, and COMMAND are).
-
- -- Trevor Bourget (trevor@telesoft.com)
-