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From: corbet@mead.ucar.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xkill and awm don't get along
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Date: 2 Dec 88 16:53:01 GMT
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Organization: Field Observing Facility, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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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