Bug 19381

Summary: xprop -spy does not handle destruction properly
Product: xorg Reporter: Ben Hutchings <ben>
Component: App/xpropAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.3 (2007.09)   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 13506    
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Description Ben Hutchings 2009-01-03 15:03:54 UTC 
Created attachment 21645 [details] [review]
proposed fix

I would expect xprop -spy to exit cleanly when the target window is
destroyed.  The actual behaviour is that it sometimes dies with a
BadWindow error and sometimes hangs around after the target has been
destroyed.  This causes problems for xdg-screensaver, which relies
on it to exit when the target is destroyed (bug 13506).

Proposed fix attached.
Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2009-02-16 16:04:48 UTC 
Applied (with additional paranoia in the error handler), thanks!

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