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njsmith / partiwm

[defunct] Experiments with window managers in Python + GTK+, including the original version of xpra
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xpra should detect stuck clients and provide a way to kill them #17

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Modern WM's have some clever code to notice when an application has gone
off to la-la land, inform the user, and optionally kill the frozen app.

None of this code works through xpra; in our case, the that can notice and
handle a crashed app is... the xpra server.

wimpiggy already exposes the relevant logic for killing stuck clients; we
just need to send WM_PING's regularly, and add some UI to let users trigger
a kill when necessary.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by njsmith@ucsd.edu on 9 Nov 2009 at 1:34