WINDOWPATH environment variable?

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Mon Dec 5 01:13:37 PST 2005


Hi,

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> secondly you will have ID conflicts. it is possible the window id's of
> the xnest server could be the same as the parent - it IS possible.

Yes, but that's no issue, since the scheme is recursive. If you have
some xterm in some Xnest in some Xnest in some X server on VT7, you
could indeed have
WINDOWPATH=7:31457296:31457296
and 
WINDOWID=31457296

Which doesn't pose problem.

Regards,
Samuel



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