jhs@monet.wbst128.xerox.com (Hans Schlichter) (08/04/89)
If I use the "Destroy Window" of the TWM window manager to destroy a client window I usually get an XIO error: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "......" Did ever anybody attempt to modify client programs to handle the destroy action of a window manager? I looked in the ICCCM document (version 1.0) and found a section on window deletion. It mentioned to use WM_DELETE_WINDOW in the WM_PROTOCOLS property. However, I did not find anything on this property in the remaining X documentation. /Hans ArpaNet: schlichter.wbst128@xerox.com
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (08/07/89)
Did ever anybody attempt to modify client programs to handle the
destroy action of a window manager? I looked in the ICCCM document
(version 1.0) and found a section on window deletion. It mentioned
to use WM_DELETE_WINDOW in the WM_PROTOCOLS property.
WM_DELETE_WINDOW isn't exactly the same as killing a client, although
some clients might interpret it as such. There is, as yet, no standard
mechanism for gracefully shutting down a client.
However, I did not find anything on this property in the remaining X
documentation.
Perhaps because the ICCCM is new, and you're looking at other documentation
that predates it.