I don't know but I find pipes to work really better than fork (yes I know pipe
makes a fork()) but I had a similar problem and launching the fork with a pipe
and closing it immediately solved it.
Try it. Might be worth the shot..
Maher
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 16:02:20 -0700 (PDT), Conrad Steenberg said:
> Hi
>
> I have a GTK app that wants to fork off a child process, which is also a
> GTK app. Of course the child process uses the parent's connection to the X
> server, and makes everything blow up because X doesn't like that :-)
>
> Calling gtk_main_quit() in the child process, and then gtk_init again
> doesn't do the trick. Can anyone enlighten me on how to get a separate
> connection to X for the child process? (Forking before the first gtk_init
> is unfortunately not an option :-(
>
> TIA
>
> Conrad
>
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