I was experimenting with Xterm escape sequences - trying to resize/reposition a window while its iconized and found I can crash X11 in just 3 escape commands in an Xterm (which I have in a shell script):
--------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash -x # Iconify window echo -ne "\e[2t" # Set height/width to 36x80 and position at +100+100 # If I do just one of these X11 does *not* crash # Resize to 36x80. This one doesn't work, even if I run just it # by itself so X11 doesn't crash. Also, this one has to be first. # If I re-position, then change geometry, it doesn't crash. echo -ne "\e[8;36;80t" # The re-position, next, actually does work behind the scenes, # if I run just this alone and then de-iconify manually, its in the # correct position. echo -ne "\e[3;100;100t" # To de-iconify (doesn't work in Cygwin anyways, unfortunately) echo -ne "\e[1t" --------------------------------------------------------------- Can anybody else confirm? (WARNING - if it does, it'll kill all your X11 windows! Be careful.) -- Nem W Schlecht "Perl did the magic. I just waved the wand." -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple