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From: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
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Subject: Re: killing a "dead" window in mwm
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Date: 5 Jul 90 12:16:27 GMT
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	>>> what is a dead window?

I thought this was a well-known bug.  If you iconify an application,
and then kill it, the icon remains.  If you double-click the icon, the
window opens with a blank background.  You cannot kill this window and
there is no pid (the child is gone).  If you "kill" the window, it
tries to kill it's child, which isn't there, so it doesn't do
anything.

As far as I could tell, restarting mwm was the only recourse.

Jordan 'I use twm now' Hayes