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    Welcome the the Unix and Linux Stack Exchange! Your answer to this question is excellent. I hope you come back to answer more questions. Commented Jul 31, 2013 at 0:00
  • Thanks for your detailed answer to this question. Regarding the option to kill the process using xkill, three things: 1. Is there a way to monitor either process deaths in the OS, or maybe trace the system call to kill the process? Figuring out which process died manually seems difficult. Commented May 27, 2022 at 18:06
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    2. I'm sure xkill internally must be able to find out the process ID that spawned the window in order to kill it. Maybe someone could add a flag to print instead of killing the process? Commented May 27, 2022 at 18:10
  • 3. The xwininfo -root -tree suggestion was very helpful for me and in general, I think it should be moved higher in the answer Commented May 27, 2022 at 18:12
  • That's a very complete answer and it turned out to be very helpful. Commented Jul 20, 2023 at 4:37