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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How should tasks be killed with KDE?
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-10-24 18:55:50
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On Wednesday 24 October 2001 09:47 am, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 October 2001 08:20 am, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> > > Ok, it happens once in a while.  A task dies, leaving a dead
> > > window on the screen.
> > >
> > > How am I supposed to kill it with KDE?
> >
> > You can use Crl-Alt-Esc to kill the window, but this will most likely
> > leave the process that belongs to it around. A btter way is to invoke the
> > task manager (ksysguard) with Ctrl-Esc which allows you to kill the
> > process.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Waldo
>
> True, but ksysguard shows the user a zillon tasks.  It's a very dangerous
> place to have users killing things.
>
> And task manager is certainly something that should be disabled in a
> Kiosk or "non-expoert" type KDE session.
>
> A user knows "this window is dead", not "this unix PID is i-looping".

Then you need to enhance KWin's ctrl-alt-esc handling so that it actually 
kills the process the window beongs to if the process is running on the same 
machine. There is _NET_WM_PID to find the PID, but I don't know if there is a 
way to find the host the process is running on, if there isn't you should add 
that first.

Cheers,
Waldo
 
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