Re: Possible problem with gdk_selection_get_owner()

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

Mark Leisher wrote:
> Mark Leisher wrote:
>
> > Attached are two small programs, gtk.c and x11.c. Both are meant to 
> > demonstrate how to use a GdkAtom/Atom to determine if an instance of a 
> > program is already running (Linux/Unix).
>
>
> I've finally tracked down the problem. When the call to 
> gdk_selection_owner_get() is done, the proper selection XID is returned 
> as being the owner of the selection, but there is no entry in the 
> GtkDisplay's XID hashtable (xid_ht).

Well, another case of me missing the obvious. Never mind, it isn't actually a 
problem. When the second instance of the gtk.c program is run, it only has the 
list of windows created for the process. It doesn't know about windows created 
in other processes. GDK would have to create a list of all property owner 
windows at startup to make this work like I expected.

The way to make it work is to make calls directly to Xlib. Of course that only 
works on Unix/Linux.
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