Re: window captions

[Marko Macek <Marko Macek gmx net>]

Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> 
> I have a question.
> 
> Some window managers (including kwm) unify window captions. If the user opens
> three xterms, she will end up with "xterm", xterm <2>" and "xterm <3>".
> 
> For well understandable reasons, any taskbar, pager or windowlist should
> enumerate the windows exactly in the same way. But how? I don't think a window
> manager is or shall be allowed to modify the WM_NAME propery directly (possible
> race conditions), so kwm used another property for that.
> 
> What are you guys doing to solve the problem?

I haven't yet because:

How do you solve the problem that X has basically 2 titles for each
window (frame, icon)?

Mark
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