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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Registering a client event with the server
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Date: 30 Oct 90 17:32:06 GMT
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In article <40743@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, edmond@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Edmond Mesrobian) writes:
|> I would like to have two clients comunicating with each other via the X server.
|> Client A would post an event (FOO) with the server, and client B would query the
|> server for the existence of FOO on the event queue.  Can a client register a 
|> client-specific event with the server? 

X is not intended to be a general inter-process communication
mechanism, but you might want to look at ClientMessage events and
PropertyNotify events.  They do provide some of the functionality you
seek.

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Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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