From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Nem W Schlecht <nem@emptec.com>
Subject: Re: Crash X11 with 3 commands
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 19:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D88FBF.8060205@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+2x6-JvHU7SsqkMuKWug-qK++9xCukiHRL0Vyf7iZxEn083EQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 24/02/2016 19:56, Nem W Schlecht wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 11/12/2015 16:21, Nem W Schlecht wrote:
>>>
>>> I was experimenting with Xterm escape sequences - trying to
>>> resize/reposition a window while its iconized and found I can crash
>>> X11 in just 3 escape commands in an Xterm (which I have in a shell
>>> script):
>>>
>>> Can anybody else confirm? (WARNING - if it does, it'll kill all your
>>> X11 windows! Be careful.)
>>
>> Thanks for reporting this.
>>
>> I was able to reproduce the crash (sporadically), but only when I was using XWin with the -compositewm option. Are you using that?
>
> Yes, I am. My apologies, I added that ages ago and forgot about it.
No problem and thanks for testing.
This crash should be fixed as of 1.18.1-2
Still no implementation of Windows requesting themselves to be
deiconified, which is unfortunately not straightforward to add.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-03 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-11 16:21 Nem W Schlecht
2015-12-11 17:54 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2015-12-11 17:59 ` Marco Atzeri
2015-12-11 18:47 ` Nem W Schlecht
2015-12-11 18:51 ` Nem W Schlecht
2015-12-12 23:57 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2016-02-23 18:13 ` Jon Turney
2016-02-24 10:08 ` Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov
2016-02-24 19:56 ` Nem W Schlecht
2016-03-03 19:26 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2016-03-04 14:53 ` Nem W Schlecht
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