From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 21:06:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B7116A4B3 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from m23.nyc.untd.com (m23.nyc.untd.com [64.136.22.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7798043F3F for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:06:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gs_stoller@juno.com) Received: from cookie.untd.com by cookie.untd.com for <"/s5f1SIGSI3+WdnoYQ8yRPP+mg2kw8V+MwXTZrHfsc8NpYy3WpFpVg==">; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:05:45 PDT Received: (from gs_stoller@juno.com) by m23.nyc.untd.com (jqueuemail) id JCE3DZ2A; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:05:45 PDT To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 00:03:47 -0400 Message-ID: <20031014.000347.-336087.0.GS_Stoller@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 1-2,7 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: Gerald S Stoller cc: gs_stoller@hotmail.com Subject: WINDOWID X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:06:08 -0000 FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 I run XFree86 on my system. Each process has an environment variable named WINDOWID . What purpose does this variable serve? How is it used? What can I do with it ((redirect output to another window, no! for that I can use /dev/tty )? I noticed (by converting several values to hex) that the form of this variable is 2 * y * 16^5 + 14 , and I never saw y > 22 ; this is a result of looking at around a dozen values.