Closing with the Window manager ('X') while connected creates a zombie process

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#229 Closing with the Window manager ('X') while connected creates a zombie process

Milestone: 1.8

Status: closed

Owner: Stephen James Hurd

Labels: None

Output Type: Win32-GDI

Found in Version: 1.8rc2

Updated: 2026-03-22

Created: 2026-03-19

Creator: Rob Swindell

Private: No

Closing SyncTERM with the Windows window manager ('X' in the upper right) closes the window and terminates the process, unless you're connected to a server and in that case, closing SyncTERM in this manner leaves a zombie SyncTERM process running.

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Stephen James Hurd - 2026-03-19

Who even does that? :D

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Stephen James Hurd - 2026-03-19

status: open --> pending
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Stephen James Hurd - 2026-03-19

I think I have a fix now.

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Rob Swindell - 2026-03-20

I just reproduced it (still happens) with the nightly built 3/20/206 12;16AM.

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Stephen James Hurd - 2026-03-20

Any chance you can attach gdb and get a backtrace? I'll try to make time to repro on my laptop something this weekend.

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Stephen James Hurd - 2026-03-20

A quick test and I wasn't able to reproduce this, I tried with both the EXE and the COM.

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Stephen James Hurd - 2026-03-22

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Stephen James Hurd - 2026-03-22

Fixed in git.
Weirdly, this also appears to have fixed the ScalingFactor=1 bug.

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Stephen James Hurd - 2026-03-22

status: pending --> closed
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