Re: Draft 1.9c

[Paul Warren <pdw ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Marko Macek wrote:

> > > ->  > well thsi can be done just by PID :) oh hold on.. hmm no actually if
> > > ->  > the spawnign spawns a process that spawns yet another process that
> > > ->  > spanws yet another process (ie scriptS) then we have isses.. yes an
> > > ->  > inherited evnironment variable set by the wm fo rthat "launch" that is
> > > ->  > then set on all widnows displayed by that app.. yes.. i see this use..
> > > ->  > perhaps it shoudl be in the spec (apps have to set a property ont he
> > > ->  > window thta is the contents of thsi variable (numeric) ie:
> > > ->  > _NET_INSTANCE_ID(CARDINAL)
> > > ->
> > > ->  I support this (and PID), but _INSTANCE_ID should be a string.
> > >
> > > hmmm - comments? i dont really have a prefernce... :)
> > 
> > Sorry if I'm being somewhat slow here, but I don't quite follow what is
> > being suggested.  Applications should set an instance ID property, right?
> > How do they get that instance ID?
> 
> Environment variable.

OK.  Apologies for my continued slowness, but how does that get set?  This
requires the app to be launched by the window manager (or some helper app)
right?

What of this needs to be declared in the spec?

cheers,

Paul