[Idle-dev] Slow close?

[Guido van Rossum]

> Note that the delay in closing Idle windows does NOT afflict the Windows 
> version. I see the delay only on Linux and Unix, which ought to give us a 
> clue as to where to look for a solution. The reason the delay was so 
> striking to me was that until very recently I had only used Idle on 
> Windows, where the windows close instantly.

It's also window manager specific.  I used to use a very old window
manager and my windows closed instantly.  Now I use some newfangled
thing (I don't even know what it's called, comes with KDE) and I have
this problem.  Maybe this is a clue?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)