[openbox] notice when windows are hung
mangosoft at comhem.se
mangosoft at comhem.se
Tue Oct 14 17:34:08 EDT 2003
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, John Russell wrote:
> In Metacity if an application is hung for some reason, and you click on
> the close box to exit it and the application ignores you, Metacity waits
> a few seconds and then gives you a "The application isn't responding"
> dialog and asks if you want to force the app to quite. This is so
> cool.
by default, middle click on the close button is bound to kill the window,
but just does an xkill thing.
> Also, it doesn't just do an xkill on the window to detach the client
> from the x server, leaving the process to run ad infinitum. It actually
> kills the process and everything. This is a really slick feature, which
> is WAY beyond my ability to code (but not my ability to whine about
> :-)).
and this most likely only works on windows that set _NET_WM_PID i guess?
either that or by magic :) (i reserve the right to be totally wrong on
this though)
> John
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Mikael Magnusson
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