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From: praty@inteloa.intel.com (Pratyush Jaiswal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Is a window manager running?
Summary: How can I find out if a window manager is running.
Message-ID: <3921@omepd>
Date: 14 Nov 88 19:16:59 GMT
Sender: news@omepd
Reply-To: praty@inteloa.UUCP (Pratyush Jaiswal)
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
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This should be an easy one. How can a client find out if there is a window
manager running on a particular display, or not?

For those who are wondering why a client should need this, the client in
question is a window manager. Essentially, my window manager would like to 
know if there is one already running; if so, then quit gracefully.

The only relevant thing I could find was to check if the XA_WM_ICON_SIZE
property is set on the root window. However, a survey of my sample of window
managers (2), showed that neither of them set it. Are these "ill-behaved", or
is there something else?

I am still on V11R2. Thanks.

Pratyush.
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