From kde-core-devel  Thu Jan 09 00:05:56 1997
From: Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 00:05:56 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDEInit Wrapper
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=96828131506582

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:52:56PM -0700, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> Without knowing too much of how these things work in X, is there no way
> that the window manager can find these things out?

No :(
 
> 'Course another (RATHER EXTREME) idea would be to make an XFree86 patch.  
> This would work for all dynamicly linked X apps (and Netscape links
> against the Xlibs dynamically, and well, the a.out X libs can still be
> built....).

I think the only safe way to solve this will be to come to an agreement
with the Gnomes to set a property on the (first) mapped window of an
application. Thankfully this is supposed to happen already thanks to
the NET_WM standard. The other thing that needs to happen is that .desktop
files carry an extra field stating whether they are ok for map-notification,
i.e. if they promise to set the pid property when they map their first window.

I'll write to the gnome-kde list about this.

Rik