Title changing is unimplemented in MultiWindow mode

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sun Mar 23 09:49:00 GMT 2003


On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:03:05PM -0500, Jack Tanner wrote:
>Harold says:
>>title changes are a feature of X Window Managers that the MultiWindow 
>>Window Manager does not yet implement.
>
>It seems to me that if there's a window manager that's released under a 
>compatible license that does implement title changing, we could "just" 
>borrow that code (with credit given where due, of course). I suspect that 
>WindowMaker wouldn't fit that profile since it's licensed under the GPL, 
>but perhaps some other window manager would.
>
>Or Harold or Kensuke or someone could just show their brilliance by coding 
>up this little featurette over the weekend. :)

I think for multi-window mode, it would just be a "simple" matter of
calling SetConsoleTitle.  Sounds like a nice project for someone to get
their toes wet in cygwin-xfree development.

cgf



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