RE: My Little Wish List for Gnome

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

I had the same problem but I was using the rpm of enlightenment .15.
If I call up GMC by itself, hitting the close button dosnt shutdown GMC.
If i run GMC with --nowindow and hit the close button GMC drops off the
desktop.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Owen Taylor [SMTP:otaylor@redhat.com]
> Sent:	Monday, December 21, 1998 11:53 AM
> To:	Robert Soros
> Subject:	Re: My Little Wish List for Gnome
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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