Re: Application launch detection
- From: Peter Astrand <astrand lysator liu se>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: xdg-list freedesktop org, wm-spec-list gnome org, rik kde org, jirka 5z com, Mary Dwyer <Mary Dwyer ireland sun com>
- Subject: Re: Application launch detection
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:30:02 +0100 (CET)
> I think the kill(pid, SIGUSR1) is quite evil; apps may use USR1 for
> something else. We shouldn't appropriate USR1 for what's essentially a
> system function since it's reserved for apps.
Agree.
> The XSendEvent solution sounds like it could be a good plan. The
> advantage would be that the launcher app avoids monitoring all mapped
> windows, right?
Yes.
>This still uses an env variable, just doesn't set a
> property on client windows, correct?
Correct. You can find some sort of demo-code on
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~astrand/projects/xalf/monitor.tar.gz
--
/Peter Astrand <astrand lysator liu se>
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