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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    RE: Transparency -- take 2
From:       Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1999-09-30 13:34:58
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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 <mosfet@jorsm.com> 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: <g.t.jansen at stud.tue.nl>
>     Phylosopher, Physicist                        PGP key ID: 0xD2B5E7CE
-- 
Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
mosfet@mandrakesoft.com
mosfet@kde.org
mosfet@jorsm.com

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