From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 41801 invoked by alias); 3 Mar 2016 19:26:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 41772 invoked by uid 89); 3 Mar 2016 19:26:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Crash, Turney, experimenting, schlecht X-HELO: out1-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 19:26:13 +0000 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081B4215CF for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2016 14:26:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 03 Mar 2016 14:26:10 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-184-210-93.range86-184.btcentralplus.com [86.184.210.93]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 838346801F5; Thu, 3 Mar 2016 14:26:09 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Crash X11 with 3 commands To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <56CCA145.1080706@dronecode.org.uk> Cc: Nem W Schlecht From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <56D88FBF.8060205@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 19:26:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-03/txt/msg00030.txt.bz2 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. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple