Ah, why, yes, that would have worked. Thanks. Jeff Abrahamson +33 6 24 40 01 57 +44 7920 594 255 <-- only when I'm in the UK
*http://www.ml-week.com/fr/* <http://www.ml-week.com/fr/>* 2-5 novembre 2015* http://jeff.purple.com/ http://blog.purple.com/jeff/ On 2 October 2015 at 11:18, Ingo Bürk <ad...@airblader.de> wrote: > xkill? > > On 10/02/2015 11:12 AM, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > > I have a window whose process is not responding. No problem, i3 lets me > > kill windows, so I type that key combination. Usually it works, but this > > time it doesn't. > > > > My work-around is to use wininfo to find the window id of the dead but > > mapped thing, bc to convert to decimal, use "ps aeww | grep" to find the > > process with that window id in its environment, then send it a kill -15 > > (does nothing visible) and then a kill -9 (still mapped, but process now > > shows as defunct). > > > > > > So the* problem* (obviously not critical, since I have a work-around) is > > how could I have avoided the wininfo -> ps -> bc -> kill thing. Looking > at > > the code, it looks like i3's kill window is cmd_kill > > <https://github.com/i3/i3/blob/next/src/commands.c#L1298>() in > commands.c. > > (How can that get called with kill_mode_str == "client"?) The chain is > > then to call tree_close_con > > <https://github.com/i3/i3/blob/next/src/tree.c#L369>() -> tree_close > > <https://github.com/i3/i3/blob/next/src/tree.c#L192>() -> x_window_kill > > <https://github.com/i3/i3/blob/next/src/x.c#L283>() -> one_of { > > xcb_destroy_window > > < > http://www.x.org/archive/current/doc/man/man3/xcb_destroy_window.3.xhtml > >(), > > xcb_kill_client > > <http://www.x.org/archive/current/doc/man/man3/xcb_kill_client.3.xhtml>() > }. > > > > I think to answer that I'l have to run i3 with logging so I can see which > > path it's taking at the end. And wait for an appropriately hung process. > > My initial hypothesis is that the window supports WM_DELETE_WINDOW but, > > since the proc is hung, it never processes it. > > > > > > Anyway, thanks for any insights. Clearly this is as much about me > learning > > as anything else. > > > > Jeff Abrahamson > > +33 6 24 40 01 57 > > +44 7920 594 255 <-- only when I'm in the UK > > > > *http://www.ml-week.com/fr/* <http://www.ml-week.com/fr/>* 2-5 > novembre > > 2015* > > > > http://jeff.purple.com/ > > http://blog.purple.com/jeff/ > > > >
