shobana@cassandra.tcs.com (Shobana Venkatraman) (08/03/90)
I am thinking of using the X inter-client communications scheme(selections) to have four X application programs talk to each other. One thing I am concerned about is the fact that the resources allocated for each atom are released only when the X server is re-initialized. Has anyone had experience with this. Any suggestions, advice would be gratly appreciated. Thanks, Shobana
mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (08/10/90)
> I am thinking of using the X inter-client communications scheme > (selections) to have four X application programs talk to each other. > One thing I am concerned about is the fact that the resources > allocated for each atom are released only when the X server is > re-initialized. Has anyone had experience with this[?] Well, presumably you aren't using very many atoms. You shouldn't need more than a few of atoms, one to name each property of interest. (Only the property names are stored as atoms; the property data do not consume resources irrevocably the way creating atoms does.) If you think you need a large number of distinct properties, you might want to consider packaging them all up into one property, somewhat like the way xrdb bundles all the resources into one RESOURCE_MANAGER property. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu