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Re: Crash X11 with 3 commands


On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Works perfectly for me.  Thanks much, as always, Jon for your
un-ending, excellent support.  It is *greatly* appreciated!! :)

-- 
Nem W Schlecht
 "Perl did the magic.  I just waved the wand."

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