Sometimes windows remain after the process has died.

Hello,

This was reported by a Debian user. Please retain the CC to
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the Debian BTS has a record.

Sometimes when a process stops the window will remain open until some
event is triggered in fvwm (in my test I use FvwmIdent) in which fvwm
will remove the window.

The following script was provided by the user which launches and
closes a large number of xterms. When running this script some of the
xterm windows will remain even though the process is no longer
running.

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote:
> Simpler test case:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> n=${1:-200}
> n=$((n+0))
>
> for i in `seq $n`; do xterm -geometry 80x24+$((2*i))+$((2*i)) -e true & done
>
> wait
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

After this script ends a few windows remain and can be moved,
iconified, shaded, resized. But if you run FvwmIdent something is
triggered which removes all the affected windows.

I was not able to reproduce this on my main machine (though rarely I
would have a window stick around for a second or two before it was
removed, most weren't even drawn), but I was able to reproduce this
with the default config on both the debian 2.6.7-3 package and the
master branch from git inside a virtual machine.

thanks for your time,

jaimos