unresponsive process window triggers too often

[Simon Steinbeiss]

Hi Olivier,

I presume this also works for CSD clients?

Cheers
Simon


Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 27. Mai 2020, 12:04:

> Hi
>
> Yes, there is, xfwm4 now checks the client is alive when it receives focus.
>
> But if the client triggers the non-responsive dialog that's because it
> claims to support _NET_WM_PING but does not reply to the _NET_WM_PING
> message in timely manner, which would be a bug in the client.
>
> Cheers
> Olivier
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 11:34, Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de> wrote:
>
>> Since this week I sometimes get that popup "Window XYZ is not responding,
>> should it be terminated? <yes>/<no>" (or something like that).
>>
>> I wonder if a change done in the the past two weeks from the XFCE
>> git#master components can cause this?
>> So far I have never seen such popups, unless the offending process was
>> really hanging.
>>
>> One place where this happens is the passphrase window when sending a
>> message with claws. If I type it correctly and wait long, nothing happens.
>> But if I mistype the passphrase, another window appears to retype the
>> passphrase. While typing the passphrase the "unresponding window" popup
>> appears, but actually between the email message window and the passphrase
>> window (not on the top over all windows). The only way around it is to
>> cancel the passphrase and send the message again, which will ask again for
>> the passphrase.
>>
>> There is nothing relevant in claws.git#master since December 2019 AFAICS,
>> I suspect the culprit is not necessary claws itself.
>>
>> Any idea what component monitors processes alive state?
>>
>> Olaf
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