Re: Menus - I dont' get gnome2 (reprise)

[Patrick Lynch <patlynch hailmail net>]

Gregory Merchan wrote:


> On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 07:08:35AM -0400, bordoley msu edu wrote:

> >                                                                 . . . since 
> > ideally programs should never crash. (plus kill in the window list was xkill 
> > so it just disconnected the app from the xserver). A better solution to this 
> > problem is the one provided by metacity. If a program becomes unresponsive, 
> > metacity popups a dialog asking the user if they want to kill the 
> > application. But metacity actually kills the app using killall. This is a 
> > much better ui overall.
>
>
> I wonder how it does killall when the client program runs on a remote host.


Just clarifying.. that if the entire Gnome dektop+metacity is running 
remotely, metacity's 'hang detector' will succesfully be able to kill 
the hung windows process ( not xkill method).

However,  if a single window is run remotely under gnome+metacity on a 
different PC, metacity can simply disconnect the window (xkill method).
In most cases, disconecting the window is adequate..if its not, a kill 
-9 is probably needed any way.

Patrick.