From kde-devel  Tue Jun 24 22:52:17 2003
From: Nathan Gray <n8gray () caltech ! edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:52:17 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KWin::info.pid
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=105649525612906

Roger Larsson wrote:

> On tisdagen den 24 juni 2003 07.15, Nathan Gray wrote:
> 
>> Can anybody tell me why the pid would be zero in KWin::Info but calling
>> proc->processIdentifier() gives the right value?
> 
> A bug in KWin::info constructor?
> 
> 
>>         KWin::Info inf = KWin::info( *it );
> 
> Step/read through it to see what happens with the pid field...

I don't have a debug version of KDE installed so stepping through would be
difficult.  I tracked down the place it must be failing though.  It's in
kdelibs-3.1/kdecore/netwm.cpp at the end of NETWinInfo::update.  This is
the code:

        p->pid = 0;
        if (XGetWindowProperty(p->display, p->window, net_wm_pid, 0l, 1l,
                               False, XA_CARDINAL, &type_ret, &format_ret,
                               &nitems_ret, &unused, &data_ret) == Success) {
            if (type_ret == XA_CARDINAL && format_ret == 32 && 
                        nitems_ret == 1) {
                p->pid = *((long *) data_ret);
            }
            if ( data_ret )
                XFree(data_ret);
        }

One of the first two if's must be failing but I'm not sure why.

Ah, now I'm noticing something interesting.  *All* nedit windows return pid
0 in the loop.  It must be something about NEdit not setting the window
property.  If anybody knows what a client needs to do to make the code
above work please let me know.  In the meantime I'll try to figure it out
for myself.

Thanks,
-n8

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