[comp.windows.x] Killing Windows

eric@eddie.MIT.EDU (Eric Van Tassell) (01/29/89)

At first when I killed a window my application saw a SIGPIPE and leaped
in front of an oncoming truck. Then I decided to ignore the SIGPIPE since
I "knew" what the cause was and would be smarter about dealing with it later.

This caused the following:

XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "unix:0.0"^M
      after 64 requests (63 known processed) with 0 events remaining.^M
      The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.^M

Is it possible to kill a window without sending the entire application
into the dumpster? I am running X11R3 on a sun 3/60. TIA.

	eric@eddie.mit.edu-- 
Eric Van Tassell(dlcdev!eric@eddie.mit.edu)
Progress Software Corp.
22 Cotton Rd.
Nashua, NH 03063 {603-882-2488}

rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (01/30/89)

    Is it possible to kill a window without sending the entire application
    into the dumpster?

Yes, by using the new ICCCM mechanism for this.  But it isn't possible
using vanilla R3 clients.