Re: Suggestion for the VMS X-windows server

Not possible. 1) X11 does not know what the process is. All it knows is
the connection - which "might" know who the user is - and it might not be
local. 2) The act of popping up an alert may well cause the failure.


"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When the X server is "running low on memory" (eg: PGFILQUOTA running below
a certain threshold), it should pop up an alert telling the user that the
X server is running low on memory (with perhaps an identification of which
process/window has made the request that cause the X server to go below
the threashold).

AKA: When mozilla goes nuts because it is trying to display some huge blog
page filled with images, the X server should warn the user before Mozilla
becomes unresponsive and not only he STOP button no longer works, but
neither does the window manager's "close window". And at one point, even
CTRL-Y fails to work.



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