Get an X window ID

[Alan Coopersmith]

Eamon Walsh wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Daniel Stone wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:00:33AM -0500, Pat Kane wrote:
>>>> Are you allowed to change Xlib and the X server?
>>>>
>>>> If so then this hack might help.
>>>>
>>>> A while ago I needed to know, from inside the X server,
>>>> the PID of a process that created an X connection.
>>>>
>>>> I used spare pad bytes in the  xConnClientPrefix initial
>>>> connection setup message to pass the PID from the client
>>>> to the X server.  Note that clients might not be on the
>>>> same machine so you also need the hostname of the client.
>>> NetWM already allows you to use properties to encode the pid and
>>> hostname of clients as window properties.
>>
>> Should we have Xlib or xcb automatically set these so that
>> we don't have to wait for every application and toolkit to
>> be modified to do so?
>>
> 
> As long as it's clear that they can be misrepresented by the client.

The client can do that on it's own already - the window managers
already established this convention - hopefully they know not to
trust it for much.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering