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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: window deletion
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Date: 7 Aug 89 13:00:16 GMT
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    Did ever anybody attempt to modify client programs to handle the
    destroy action of a window manager? I looked in the ICCCM document
    (version 1.0) and found a section on window deletion. It mentioned 
    to use WM_DELETE_WINDOW in the WM_PROTOCOLS property.

WM_DELETE_WINDOW isn't exactly the same as killing a client, although
some clients might interpret it as such.  There is, as yet, no standard
mechanism for gracefully shutting down a client.

    However, I did not find anything on this property in the remaining X
    documentation.

Perhaps because the ICCCM is new, and you're looking at other documentation
that predates it.