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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: visibility?
From:       Mark Deneen <deneen () bucknell ! edu>
Date:       2000-03-09 2:45:11
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Is there any chance of LD_PRELOAD going away?

I've seen a few articles about it and security concerns.

Just a thought..

On 08-Mar-00 Rik Hemsley wrote:
>#if David Smith
>> Rik Hemsley wrote:
>> > 
>> > So if some apps don't set WM_COMMAND, how do we know when they have
>> > mapped ? The answer is, we don't. I can't see a way to be sure, and
>> > if we can't be sure, we shouldn't mess, as we'll just get into
>> > trouble.
>> 
>> I saw another way to get a clue about which app is behind a window
>> in scwm:  Use LD_PRELOAD when starting a program to load a library
>> that overrides XCreateWindow() and sets a property with the pid 
>> whenever a window is opened.
>> I guess, depending on preferences, you would call this either really 
>> cool or really ugly... 
> 
> Sounds like a good idea to me. Does it always work properly in scwm ?
> If so, I think we should use it. We could add a line to the desktop
> files of apps that are 'compliant' (set WM_COMMAND) to say they
> work and use this for the rest.
> 
> Rik
> 
> -- 
> Shuffle fragments.

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Mark Deneen
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