Re: How to simulate full window (manager) close-button behaviour?

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 12:55 +0100, Mathias Hasselmann wrote:
>  
>   
> > > I mean, usually gtk_widget_destroy() or gtk_widget_hide() will be called 
> > > as part of the handling, but those functions are not what I'm looking 
> > > for; I also want to execute the full event handler "chain" that may lead 
> > > to these calls as well as other tests or whatever that are part of the 
> > > full close behaviour.
> > >       
>
> connect to the ::delete-event and override the default behaviour.
>   
I don't think you understand my question. I'm not asking how to change 
the behaviour. What I'm looking for is a way to execute the exact 
behaviour that's configured, without having to duplicate a lot of code 
and risk getting inconsistencies.

> > Pressing the close button usually causes the window manager to send the
> > WM_DELETE_WINDOW message[1], as described in the ICCCM. A short look
> > over the GDK source code didn't reveal a location where GDK _sends_ that
> > message.
> >     
>
> GDK is not responsible for sending the WM_DELETE_WINDOW client message:
> the window manager is, and developers should *never* synthesise that. 
>   
My reason for asking was precisely that I want to avoid this, i.e. I 
would like to tell Gtk to do whatever it does when it *receives* the 
delete window event without actually having the program send the event 
to itself.

- T