[Bug 87584] Re: Gnome-panel launchers cause shared pgid

[tweedledee]

To clarify - it is the group ID (PGID) that is the same, not the PID.  A
simple "ps -ej" in the terminal shows each process with its own PID,
everything launched from the gnome enviornment sharing a PGID but other
programs with different ones, and most everything sharing the SID.

Gnome - when this was submitted as a feature request to the gnome team,
they responded that they had no code that would specifically cause this
(which is perhaps not quite the same thing as saying they aren't
responsible).  Of course, I have no idea if Canonical has added any code
that would explicitly do this, either.

I have a somewhat customized environment, but it is more or less pure
gnome with routine apps and a few extras (except for a couple of java
apps and vmware, nothing outside the repositories, and while I am
running an extra xfce4 panel for my taskbar in addition to gnome-panel,
the window manager/etc is unchanged).  However, as the thread discussion
shows, this isn't just my environment doing this - I'm more or less just
trying to summarize the discussion on that thread and elsewhere, plus
some of my own research.

Also, possibly relevant update - when I compiled the newest version of
fbpanel (4.5 vs. 4.1 in the repositories), it seemed to interact with
metacity more or less as I would expect.  So perhaps this all ties into
some relatively recent in metacity?  I'm just guessing.

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Gnome-panel launchers cause shared pgid
https://launchpad.net/bugs/87584