Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!mead.ucar.edu!corbet From: corbet@mead.ucar.edu Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: xkill and awm don't get along Message-ID: <1071@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 2 Dec 88 16:53:01 GMT Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu Reply-To: corbet@mead.ucar.edu () Organization: Field Observing Facility, NCAR, Boulder, CO Lines: 15 I tried to use xkill to get rid of a window on my display...the result is that my window manager (awm) died instead. The results were somewhat disorienting, as all of my icons exploded and general chaos ensued. Since then, I have done some playing, and I have come to the following tentative conclusion: since awm reparents windows to put things like title bars on them, xkill is always seeing a window owned by awm when it goes about its grim business. So, awm always gets nailed. It's hard to see a way around this problem, especially with my novice-level knowledge of X programming. But I thought I would pass it on... Jonathan Corbet National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility corbet@stout.ucar.edu