Windows and PIDs

Peter Hutterer mailinglists at who-t.net
Thu Jun 7 16:48:09 PDT 2007


John Klingler wrote:
> Is there any way of determining the process id of the application owning 
> the display connection which created a particular window?

Yes and no. you can read the _NET_WM_PID property, but it is the 
client's choice whether to set it or not.

see also
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-May/024754.html

Cheers,
   Peter



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