From kde-core-devel Thu Sep 30 13:34:58 1999 From: Mosfet Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:34:58 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: RE: Transparency -- take 2 X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93869927926500 Okay, I didn't never had seen XSetCloseDownMode used like this, only in debugging so you all know more about it than I. If it can retain the Pixmap ID's then it's cool (nothing will crash), and if KDesktop can remove them if restarted no resources will be wasted. On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Geert Jansen wrote: > Dirk A. Mueller wrote: > > Mosfet wrote: > > > > > b) have some mechanism for the shared pixmap to "fork" a local copy > > > if kdesktop bombs. > > > > This a must. Imagine someone types "killall kdesktop" in a transparent > > konsole ;-) > > > > I wonder if we can somehow convince the X server to do the sharing for > > us. I can remember that these xpixmap id's are build so that more than > > one program can use them. > > Correct. And with XSetCloseDownMode() they even stay there after a kdesktop > crash. This is what I was saying :) > > Greetings, > -- > Geert Jansen email: > Phylosopher, Physicist PGP key ID: 0xD2B5E7CE -- Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin. mosfet@mandrakesoft.com mosfet@kde.org mosfet@jorsm.com