Bug 364337

Summary:	killer/killer.cpp calls SIGKILL whereas the non-interactive code in client.cpp uses SIGTERM
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking>
Component:	core	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde.org
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	git master
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Thomas Lübking 2016-06-15 06:12:11 UTC

Should probably be harmonized.

Maybe
* tag the client
* ::kill(PID, SIGTERM)
* wait few seconds
* if the tagged client is still there, ::kill(PID, 0), ::kill(PID, SIGKILL)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 kde.org 2021-11-06 17:20:47 UTC

I found the following files

src/helpers/killer/killer.cpp
src/x11client.cpp

in KDE 5.24-master, so the issue might still persist. It doesn't really sound like a bug, but rather a code cleanup that should be done sometime in the future.