Kill, must kill!

[Stephan Arts]

On 10/29/07, Jonathan Hepburn <jonathan.hepburn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/28/07, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Hmm... That's not what I want. I still think kill should be available
> > > directly through the Window Manager.
> > >
> > > Plus, for some strange reason, when I use xkill (testing purposes),
> > > the GTK theme goes away and I get the foul default back.
> >
> > What you call the "kill" function in the WM is basically XKillClient()
> > which is exactly what xkill does [1].
> >
> > Now, if the gtk theme return to its default, this is because you killed
> > the xsettings manager, ie in xfce what is called the xfce-settings-manager.
> >
> > This is not related to the method used to kill, but what you actually
> > killed...
> >
> > [1]
> > http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/*checkout*/xc/programs/xkill/xkill.c?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Olivier.
>
> Ah, thanks for the clarification. I maintain that I would prefer to
> have kill available through the WM, but I'll be happy to use xkill in
> the meantime.
>
> Yes, I was, not sure why now, killing xfce-settings-manager. I'm
> slightly surprised that killing the manager unsets the settings. It's
> slightly unintuitive. Not knowing any better I'll take your word for
> it!

The application which delivers you the config-dialog is the daemon
which handles the settings. So killing it at one place would
effectively make sure it won't handle the other either.

>
> Slainte,
> J

Stephan