Andreas Kling 2ce2c4810a LibIPC+WindowServer+LibGUI: Detect and highlight unresponsive GUI apps ...

IPC::ClientConnection now tracks the time since the last time we got
a message from the client and calls a virtual function on itself after
3 seconds: may_have_become_unresponsive().

Subclasses of ClientConnection can then react to this if they like.

We use this mechanism in WindowServer to send out a friendly Ping
message to the client. If he doesn't Pong within 1 second, we mark
the client as "unresponsive" and recompose all of his windows with
a darkened appearance and amended title until he Pongs us.

This is a little on the aggressive side and we should figure out a way
to wake up less often. Perhaps this could only be done to windows the
user is currently interacting with, for example.

Anyways, this is pretty cool! :^)

2020-06-11 22:46:49 +02:00

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