Bug 8013

Summary:

xinit should set WINDOWPATH

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault>

Component:

App/xinit

Assignee:

Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

high

Version:

7.1 (2006.05)

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
have xinit set the WINDOWPATH environment variable	none

Description Samuel Thibault 2006-08-25 16:47:19 UTC

Hi,

As discussed some time ago on xorg@freedesktop.org (starting from
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-December/011434.html, and agreed
on on http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-December/011470.html ),
braille accessibility of X applications and text applications running in xterms
both need a WINDOWPATH environment variable that contains the "window path"
of the X server, i.e. the list of VT or Xnest windows that lead to the actual
session. It might be useful for other uses too. 

The attached patch implements this in xinit.

Samuel

Comment 1 Samuel Thibault 2006-08-25 16:48:08 UTC

Created attachment 6701 [details] [review]
have xinit set the WINDOWPATH environment variable

Comment 2 Samuel Thibault 2006-12-12 01:49:53 UTC

Could this be committed some time?

Sorry to put pressure on this, but this was discussed and agreed on almost a year ago, and in the meanwhile we have to tell people to do ugly hacks for having our apps working...

Comment 3 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:33:20 UTC

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

Comment 4 Alan Coopersmith 2007-05-21 16:59:36 UTC

Committed to git master for xinit-1.0.4 release:

commit fa78528b44d4c1c50594359e17114208834a84fd
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Fri Aug 25 16:48:00 2006 -0800

    X.Org Bugzilla #8013: xinit should set WINDOWPATH
    
    X.Org Bugzilla #8013: <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8013>
    Patch #6701: <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=6701>

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