corbet@mead.ucar.edu (12/03/88)
I tried to use xkill to get rid of a window on my display...the result is that my window manager (awm) died instead. The results were somewhat disorienting, as all of my icons exploded and general chaos ensued. Since then, I have done some playing, and I have come to the following tentative conclusion: since awm reparents windows to put things like title bars on them, xkill is always seeing a window owned by awm when it goes about its grim business. So, awm always gets nailed. It's hard to see a way around this problem, especially with my novice-level knowledge of X programming. But I thought I would pass it on... Jonathan Corbet National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility corbet@stout.ucar.edu
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (12/04/88)
I tried to use xkill to get rid of a window on my display...the result is
that my window manager (awm) died instead.
xkill is broken. It needs to use the (still under development)
conventions for walking down the tree to find the "real" client window.
xkill was probably only ever tested with uwm ...spencer@spline.eecs.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas) (12/06/88)
I might point out that awm has an "f.destroy" action that works perfectly well. =Spencer (spencer@crim.eecs.umich.edu)