Title changing is unimplemented in MultiWindow mode

Raymond Kwong kwong@control.toronto.edu
Fri Mar 21 08:05:00 GMT 2003


I have found perhaps something interesting. 

1. If I start the Xserver with

start XWin-4.2.0-20 -multiwindow -nolisten tcp

I can change the xterm window title using -T option on the command line.

2. If I start the Xserver with 

start XWin-4.2.0-28 -multiwindow

again I can change the xterm window title using -T option.

However,

3. If I start the Xserver with 

start XWin-4.2.0-28 -multiwindow -nolisten tcp

then I cannot change the xterm window title using -T option. It will
always remain "Cygwin/XFree86 X rl"

Any explanations?

Raymond

Harold Hunt wrote:

There seems to be some questions about why the title on the Windows-window does not
change when running with "-multiwindow". The answer is simply this: title changes
are a feature of X Window Managers that the MultiWindow Window Manager does not yet
implement.

Would it be easy to implement this feature? Probably. Any volunteers?

Harold



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