Re: Why do XTerms behave so badly in the Gnome Shell?

[Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i md5i com>]

"Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>
writes:

> Let's try something else:
>
> open up an xterm, use xprop to inspect the WM_CLASS
>
> $ xprop WM_CLASS
> ... click on xterm ...
>
> Now:
>
> $ ls /usr/share/applications/*xterm*.desktop
>
> Do the two filenames match?

md5i@maru:/usr/local/home/md5i$ xprop WM_CLASS
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "xterm", "XTerm"
md5i@maru:/usr/local/home/md5i$ ls /usr/share/applications/*xterm*.desktop
/usr/share/applications/debian-uxterm.desktop
/usr/share/applications/debian-xterm.desktop

I tried this with both a xterm I started from the command line, and one
I ran by clicking on the xterm icon in the applications view.  The class
was the same in both instances.

> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Michael Welsh Duggan
> <md5i md5i com> wrote:
>> Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i md5i com> writes:
>>
>>> "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>
>>> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Michael Welsh Duggan
>>>> <md5i md5i com> wrote:
>>>>> Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i md5i com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>
>>>>>> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This means the app tracking isn't working. Try something like this in
>>>>>>> the looking glass and tell me what it says (make sure that all your
>>>>>>> xterm windows have "xterm" somewhere in the title!):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Shell.WindowTracker.get_default().get_window_app([x for each(x in
>>>>>>> global.get_window_actors()) if
>>>>>>> (x.meta_window.get_title().indexOf("xterm") >
>>>>>>> 0)][0].meta_window).get_id()
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, this particular invocation ends up resulting in an error, but
>>>>>> that's because indexOf("xterm") is equal to 0 for all the windows in
>>>>>> question.  If I change this to >= 0, the return value is window:3.
>>>>
>>>> That means it's window-backed. How are you starting XTerm?
>>>
>>> The first time I started an XTerm, I used Alt-F2 xterm RET.  Future
>>> xterms were usually started from existing xterms (though not always).
>>> When I log off, I usually do not manually shut down my existing xterms.
>>> Thus when I log back in, they are re-started automatically.  Thus I have
>>> some number of persistent xterms, session to session.
>>
>> No further word on this?  I'm happy to give more data.
>>
>> --
>> Michael Welsh Duggan
>> (md5i md5i com)
>>
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