Re: ctwm blocks "wmctrl -c"

Michael van Elst <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Sep 2021 00:27:46 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.window-managers.ctwm
Message-ID	<YU5Q4c7GRE/[email protected]>

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 11:36:39PM +0200, Frank Steiner wrote:
> Frank Steiner wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Michael van Elst wrote:
> > 
> > > Killing a window by id is possible with xkill. No window manager support
> > > is required for this.
> > 
> > I never stop learning :-) Thanks a lot, I wasn't aware of xkill! Works great!
> 
> Ah, no! xkill doesn't kill the popup windows, but its *creator*, i.e.
> the script that created them. That's not what's supposed to happen...

It closes the connection to the X server, this deletes all windows that
were created on that connection. Most clients will then abort (as they
should, the same happens when the X server is shut down).

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