Re: Window -> PID

From: Logan Shaw (lshaw-usenet_at_austin.rr.com)
Date: 11/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:14:19 GMT

bunka.munka@yahoo.com wrote:
> Sometimes, I have an application running in Window and want to
> know the PID. Is there a way I can get it somehow digging into
> structures, if I know the Window ID (obtained by xwininfo) ?

Who says the application is running on the local host? Who says
it's even running on an operating system that has the notion of
processes in the first place? All you really know is that it's
something which is interacting with the X server.

   - Logan

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