Re: rename-window far from beeing perfect



Am Freitag, den 18.09.2009, 21:00 +0900 schrieb Teika Kazura:
> Hi.
> 
> Isn't it ok to have rename-window as a practical hack against ICCCM?
> It's the fact that there're crazy titles set by clients. But at least,
> it should be documented that it's a mere resort.
> 
> It is also possible to put it on Scripts page in wiki, rather than
> adopting in the trunk. I'm not sure which is right. Anyway, thank you
> Timo for notice.
> 
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:56:20 +0300, Timo Korvola wrote:
> > The entire rename-window feature is something like a bug.  It is  
> > forbidden in the ICCCM for the wm to change WM_NAME and other such 
> > properties written by the client (see 4.1.2 Client Properties, first 
> > paragraph).  _NET_WM_NAME is part of EWMH and not in the ICCCM, but 
> > because _NET_WM_NAME is intended as a UTF-8 replacement for WM_NAME, it 
> > would seem reasonable to expect the same behaviour.
> 
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:42:00 +0200, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> > [On] rename-window [...]  when an app changes the (_NET_)WM_NAME on it's
> > own, our customized one is beeing erased
> 
> Is it possible to react with property-notify-hook or things like that?
> In that case, I think this kind of code should go into user contrib
> scripts, not into trunk.

Haven't yet looked into that. Well, I've no problem with moving to
`Snippets'.

> Regards,
> Teika (Teika kazura)

Now, it also changes (_NET_)WM_ICON_NAME -> results in panels display
the new name, too.

Chris

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