Re: xkill Safety

2014-07-25 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Freitag, 25. Juli 2014 15:33:34 CEST, Maxwell Anselm wrote: What's the deal? Are we doing something really stupid without realizing it, or is xkill's man page exaggerating the safety risk? Depending on the usecase you may want to use wmctrl/xdotool to close all windows (to give the clients

xkill Safety

2014-07-25 Thread Maxwell Anselm
Some Arch users noticed that when killing their X sessions without closing all windows first, some programs (namely Chromium and Libreoffice) later complained that they had not been properly shut down. The solution we came up with was a little program to XKillClient each window before quitting X.