Thank you, Dokinik, for your assessment: > > How would you judge its behavior concerning stability and side effects: > > Would it be to risky to use it right away in a production system, aka > > "testing under wild life conditions"? > > The worst that can happen is that different windows aren't > accessible. Regarding stability, I'd say the patched code is how > it should have been from the start, but you never know what > strange and broken applications are around and how they react to > changes in the events before you just try it for a while. This > certainly needs testing. > > However, this patch only affects clients that do things like > iconifying or withdrawing their windows, i.e. the vast majority of > programs won't be affected, but you never know what closed source > programs until they break.
So I will use the fixed version looking out for such a behavior of applications and report corresponding findings here. Thank you very much, Dominik, for taking care of that problem, and your profound analysis and comprehensive help. Greetings Juergen