Any problems with this patch Alexandre? It's missed 3 rounds of commits now.
thanks -mike
On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 13:59, Mike Hearn wrote:
Got to start somewhere. This patch adds support for the netWM ping protocol, which lets window managers like metacity present a nice "This app is not responding, kill it?" window when the program freezes. This unfortunately happens all too often with IE in particular, and while us developers can see (and understand) critical section timeout messages, people running from the menu or desktop icons cannot.
I haven't bothered sending a message to the window (WM_NULL) because if the program stops responding, it'll stop processing X messages as well. If you want to test it out, just put an infinite loop in a test app then try and close it.
Tested with metacity from gnome2.2 - may work with latest KWin, if it doesn't then file a bug in KDE bugzilla.
ChangeLog: Support _NET_WM_PING protocol so the WM can detect freezes
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Mike Hearn