[Xquartz-dev] auto-quit (was Re: 2.4.0-beta2)

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Jun 11, 2009, at 23:15, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> On 11Jun2009 17:02, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 11, 2009, at 15:57, Simone Karin Lehmann wrote:
>>> I just got a bug report about this issue from a user, who couldn't
>>> launch GIMP any longer since he had enabled auto-shutdown. Disabling
>>> auto-shutdown solved it.
>>
>> Yeah, that would be the effect... perhaps I can add a timer for  
>> this...
>> so if it's still at 0 after a few seconds...
>
> What about counting active X11 connections instead of windows?
> An app with a splash screen should survive ok with that.

The window manager doesn't know about active connections.

At this time, I don't intend to build this functionality into the  
server itself.