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XLib: 'Soft-Closing' a window

I know, that I can 'close' an X11 Window by calling:

XDestroyWindow(display, id);

The problem is, this destroyes the window immediately. On the other hand, if i click the close button (x in the title bar) the app can show something like "Do you really want to exit?".

So how can I emulate this type of window closing?

Background: I am closing windows from other applications, not my own

Solution

  • I found a solution:

    XEvent event;
event.xclient.type = ClientMessage;
event.xclient.window = id;
event.xclient.message_type = XInternAtom(d, "WM_PROTOCOLS", TRUE);
event.xclient.format = 32;
event.xclient.data.l[0] = XInternAtom(d, "WM_DELETE_WINDOW", FALSE);
event.xclient.data.l[1] = CurrentTime;
XSendEvent(d, id, False, NoEventMask, &event);

    Where d is the display handle and id is the window ID.

    CREDIT: https://john.nachtimwald.com/2009/11/08/sending-wm_delete_window-client-messages/