Re: getting a window title in opera [Thanks!]

Matthew Fuller wrote:

[AS]
> > 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.

[MF]
> 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.

Amazing! I wonder how many other features of linux, X11 etc. I don't
know about that could be enormously useful to me?

That works as you've described and means I can now much more easily locate
the window I want in the iconmanager.

This mechanism means that I should be able to create a script that allows
me first to create N opera windows with different names, then populate them
as desired.

If I can find a way that does that automatically for N new windows
whenever I start up opera, that will save a lot of hassle.

Unfortunately at present calls of 'opera' just add a new tab to the current
opera window. I'll have to find out how to suppress that temporarily.

This is another reason for preferring opera to firefox, since I have not
found a way to stop firefox changing name of window when I switch between
tabs, which screws up the use of the iconmanager to select windows.

Many thanks.

Aaron