[Parti-discuss] [PATCH] allow xpra command line to specify window title suffix

[Ethan Blanton]

Nathaniel Smith spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > I don't see the problem, what am I missing?
> 
> If the xpra client goes off to la-la land, then modern WMs will
> notice, and pop up a "hey, this app is unresponsive, do you want to
> kill it?" dialog. And if you click "yes", then it'll actually kill the
> app (not just disconnect it from the X server and leave it spinning in
> the background and silently chewing all your cpu, no matter how
> traditional that is, hi netscape 4). But this only works if
> WM_CLIENT_MACHINE indicates that it's on the same host and kill(2)
> will work.

So ... the problem is that some (new) software is bad.  This is a
common theme, if we worked around all bad new software, we'd have to
give up on computers entirely.  ;-)

This doesn't bother me, it still seems like passing WM_CLIENT_MACHINE
is the most correct course of action.

> This is a bit of a finicky detail, though, and of course, xpra
> contains no bugs, so this will never come up.
> 
> I'm not sure if there are any other non-cosmetic uses of
> WM_CLIENT_MACHINE... there could be in principle, but maybe not in
> practice.

Session management can use it.  This again might not be exactly what
you want when xpra is involved ... but I don't think that means xpra
should hide things.

Ethan

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