Re: Three focus concepts

"Matthew D. Fuller" <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:31:04 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.window-managers.ctwm
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 10:21:05PM +0000 I heard the voice of
Aaron Sloman, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Unfortunately, firefox changes its window label every time I switch
> to a new tab in the window, and that new label is also shown in the
> iconmanager.
> 
> Opera has a different problem: NO window labels. I can assign window
> labels using xprop -set WM_NAM (as I learnt from Matthew Fuller).

It did occur to me at one point that we could just add checking extra
properties to override WM_NAME/WM_ICON_NAME.  That would let you
override windows regardless.


> I suppose Ctwm would not be able to remember externally allocated
> window labels across a reboot either?

No way anything could possibly know what windows to apply them to.


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