Re: Application launch detection

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

raster rasterman com writes: 
> i alreayd have a PID and LAUNCH_Id property workign via an LD_PRELOAD
> hack the launcher uses for apps - works like a charm (XCreateWindow,
> XCreateSimpleWindow and XReparentWindow are wraped and hacked to
> forcibly set these and other properties)
> 

Yes, as do WindowMaker and Xalf, but the point of specifying these is
to let toolkits support them natively and dump the LD_PRELOAD hacks.
LD_PRELOAD is unportable, slows down the linker, collides with other
LD_PRELOAD hacks, and just generally sucks.

Havoc