Add support to the _NET_WM_PID atom

Bug #1265577 reported by Pojar Geo
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Bug Description

Add support to the _NET_WM_PID atom which is needed by many windows managers to correctly associate a SDL window to its process and to related .desktop file and icon for the given host.

EWMH (Extended Window Manager Hints) is a set of conventions (basically extending the original ICCCM, or Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual) on how to make X clients play along nicely especially assisting the window manager (which is just another X client) do its job.

What this particular protocol (_NET_WM_PID) does, is add a property to the client's window containing the process id of the client's process. The rationale is that if the window manager detects that a particular client does not respond, it can use the pid to kill it.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package tvtime - 1.0.2-10ubuntu10

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tvtime (1.0.2-10ubuntu10) trusty; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/tvtime-1.0.2-wmpid.patch: Link to libsupc++ instead of
    bringing in libstdc++. (LP: #1265576)
  * debian/patches/tvtime-1.0.2-libsupc++.patch: Add support to the _NET_WM_PID
    atom. (LP: #1265577)
  * Updated debian/patches/tvtime-1.0.2-cppcheck.patch: Fixed more memory leak.
  * Renamed debian/patches/tvtime-1.0.2-icon.patch to tvtime-1.0.2-wmicon.patch
  * debian/control: Updated to Standards-Version 3.9.5, no changes needed.
 -- POJAR GEORGE <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:01:25 +0000

Changed in tvtime (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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