Re: FVWM: full titles on icons

From: Phil Stracchino <alaric_at_caerllewys.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:04:55 -0400

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 08:19:54AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
> Ray <whatdoineed2do_at_yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> > hi Mikhael,
> >
> > thanks for the reply. in my question i do mean real
> > iconfied windows but in my example i was using
> > netscape 7 but heres a simply way to get the same
> > effect.
> >
> > can you try using an xterm/rxvt and at the shell
> >
> > echo -en "\033]0;foo bar\007"
> >
> > this should set both the title string and the icon
> > string in the xterm.
> >
> > when the xterm/rxvt is iconified, i would like the
> > icon title to say "foo bar". do you know of the
> > style/cfg option to ensure this is the case?
>
> If you want to change the iconname use:
>
> \033]2;foo bar\007


I'm using 2.4.16 and I find I don't have to do anything special to have
the full window title mirrored in the icon title. It Just Works,
whether it's a Mozilla window, an xterm (export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne
"\033]0;${HOSTNAME}:${USER}:${PWD}\007"'), an xcoral instance, XMMS, or
whatever.


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