don't know how to use the LD_PRELOAD hack to get the id of a process creating a window

2004-03-25 Thread dave giffin
I appreciate all the feedback from people so quickly on my previous message. I read Carsten Haitzler's message about creating a library and getting x apps to load it via the LD_PRELOAD environment variable. This sounds like the best option for me. But, I'm not sure how to actually do it. I

Re: how to convert a window ID to a linux process ID?

2004-03-25 Thread Marcus Schaefer
Hi, _NET_WM_PID is a VOLUNTARY property set by some apps if they want to. not all x apps will set this - so windows wont necessarily have this property. see my LD_PRELOAD hack for forcing a process id property to be set on ALL toplevel windows of apps run under the preload Yes now I

Re: how to convert a window ID to a linux process ID?

2004-03-25 Thread Rick Beldin
Perhaps some thought should be given to modify Xlib in a manner similar to the way Xt is modified with the XtDebug resource. It sets the _MIT_OBJ_CLASS property on the window with the widget instance name and the application class name.This is happening in Intrinsic.c in RealizeWidget().

Bug: mailing list woes

2004-03-25 Thread Kean Johnston
Hi, I am having a lot of trouble posting to this list. Only a subset of the messages I sent are making it back to me. I tried mailing postmaster, to no avail. Can someone look into what may be going wrong? Thank you. Kean ___ Devel mailing list

Re: Enabling mouse on X Server

2004-03-25 Thread Andrew E. Mileski
Suresh wrote: I have ported X server on to my reference board based on Intel's Strong Arm, When I connected a USB optical wheel mouse to the USB port the mouse doesn't work: The mouse pointer appears on the screen, dmesg cmd also show that the system has identified the device (including details

Re: Bug: mailing list woes

2004-03-25 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:03:44PM -0800, Kean Johnston wrote: Hi, I am having a lot of trouble posting to this list. Only a subset of the messages I sent are making it back to me. I tried mailing postmaster, to no avail. Can someone look into what may be going wrong? Thank you. Do you know if

Re: make install and nfs

2004-03-25 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:36:13PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: On a thin client, one without development tools, it's `Cannot find a rule to build /usr/include/stdio.h' and similar failures during the dependency checks. The only way I see to stop these is for `make install' to not do dependency

vesa and ati driver problems

2004-03-25 Thread Lee Olsen
Hello all; A couple of things I found while sorting out multihead isa systems: The vesa driver's probe looks like this: /* VGA has one more read/write attribute register than EGA */ (void) inb(GenericIOBase + VGA_IN_STAT_1_OFFSET); /* Reset flip-flop */ outb(VGA_ATTR_INDEX, 0x14 |