XLIB Programming Manual, Rel. 5, Third Edition

Name

DestroyNotify — xdestroywindow

When Generated

A DestroyNotify event reports that a window has been destroyed.

Select With

To receive this event type on children of a window, specify the parent window ID and pass SubstructureNotifyMask as part of the event_mask argument to XSelectInput. This event type cannot be selected with StructureNotifyMask.

XEvent Structure Name

typedef union _XEvent {
    ...
    XDestroyWindowEvent xdestroywindow;
    ...
} XEvent;

Event Structure

typedef struct {
    int type;
    unsigned long serial;    /* # of last request processed by server */
    Bool send_event;         /* True if this came from SendEvent request */
    Display *display;        /* Display the event was read from */
    Window event;
    Window window;
} XDestroyWindowEvent;

Event Structure Members

event

The window that selected the event.

window

The window that was destroyed.