Re: How to access Window Manager protocol

[Laurent Besson <laurent besson st com>]

Than you for your answer, Stephen. It helped me open my eyes.

In fact, I was using the 'destroy' event and not the 'delete event'
(which is the one
used by the window manager to kill the window).

So, defining a callback for 'delete_event' was enough to do the trick.

Thanks again,
Laurent.

"swilhelm/OU=internet/DD.RFC-822=swilhelm"@theriver com eux220 sgp st com
wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Laurent Besson wrote:
>
> > I'm quite new to Gtk-Perl and I was wondering how to get a window which
> > can't be closed by the window manager.
>
> Look at the bottom paragraph of:
>
> http://personal.riverusers.com/~swilhelm/gtkperl-tutorial/goodbyeworld.html
>
> which briefly explains that if you attach a callback function to
> "delete_event", and if that function returns a true value, the window
> won't be closed.
>
> However, programs like xkill send the "destroy" signal, which can be
> intercepted if you want to do some cleanup, but you cannot prevent a
> window from being destroyed.
>
> Also take a look at the button example program available at:
>
> http://personal.riverusers.com/~swilhelm/gtkperl-tutorial//button.html
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Stephen Wilhelm
>     See my Gtk-Perl Tutorial:
>     http://personal.riverusers.com/~swilhelm/gtkperl-tutorial/