Re: Application launch detection

[raster rasterman com]

On 10 Nov, Havoc Pennington scribbled:
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->  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.

but it's the only viable way of making this work universally until
every toolkit and application catches up AND everyone installs all
theupdated toolkits, apps etc. (which will be a long time) - iknow i
can easily get the hacks directly into xlib for our load here at VA
without a problem - and thats a secondary solution - it then fixes all
toolkits and all legacy apps in one hit :)

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