Re: getting a window title in opera

On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 03:07:10PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Aaron Sloman, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> [...] I've mostly switched to opera, which has become far more
> responsive since being based on chromium.
> 
> It now has other problems,

Yeah, that sounds like it's related to Chromium   ;)


> I wonder if anyone has a better solution. Is there some way to force
> an opera window to have a title? Then the ctwm iconmanager will just
> use it and I won't have to build my own index.

Well, window titles are just window properties; you can add/remove 'em
just like the program itself can.  It's even easier on programs that
don't [re]set it themselves, since your choices will stick.  There are
actually two different properties in question here; the window name
(WM_NAME), and the icon name (WM_ICON_NAME), which are conceptually
independent (though quite often set identically).  In ctwm terms,
WM_NAME is what winds up in the titlebar, and WM_ICON_NAME is what
winds up in the icon manager.

So you can use xprop(1) to set 'em at will.  e.g.,

% xprop -set WM_NAME asdf

and then clicking on the appropriate window.


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