Crash X11 with 3 commands
Nem W Schlecht
nem@emptec.com
Wed Feb 24 19:56:00 GMT 2016
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Jon Turney
<jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> 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.
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Nem W Schlecht
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