Re: My Little Wish List for Gnome

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Robert Soros <bobsoros@yahoo.com> writes:

> > Maybe your window manager kills the process instead of sending a
> "delete
> > window" event - the desktop icons are supposed to remain. Try
> choosing the
> > Close menu item instead... in WindowMaker for example, you would
> kill the
> > whole process if you chose Kill from the window menu, but the X button
> > only closes the window.
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately my windowmanager kills the process, which is not good at
> all :(  Correct me if I'm wrong though, cannot apps be coded so the
> parent window will only have a delete_window  event attached to them,
> overriding the window manager's kill_process scheme ? I would hope so,
> because If I'm asking this question now, your going to have a lot more
> people asking why their desktop icons are disappearing in the future. 

No, if the window manager does an XKillClient() on the window,
there is basically nothing that the client can do but die.

If your window manager does, by default, an XKillClient() on a 
program that advertises itself as supporting the WM_DELETE
message (as all GTK+ apps do), then it is horribly broken,
and you probably should consider switching to a different WM.

Regards,
                                        Owen