lingering open windows

[dnut]

Some library interacts with the clipboard by opening a hidden window that you never see. Usually I don't see this unless my computer sits idly for a long time, and then I come back to see a huge number of anonymous windows in my dock in gnome. They close immediately when I click on them, or they all close at once if I restart this service.

This problem is not straightforward to solve. It may require gnome to implement the wlr standard, which they have stated explicitly they are not interested in doing. Otherwise there is writing an integration with gnome but I think this API is supposed to be private. More research is needed.

An alternative approach would be to simply restart the clipboard tracking process more frequently rather than only waiting for EMFILE error to restart. If the process restarts every minute for example, that may prevent a huge number of these windows from accumulating. This restarting behavior could be made customizable as part of the implementation for #2.

[dnut]

solved by killing the process every 10 minutes