Re: tlug: this is weird

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew S Howell <andy@example.com> writes:

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> Why is it an insanely non-trivial task to set the titlebar
    Scott> text of a window in X?  I'm using a library which does not
    Scott> use Xt, or Tk, or Motif.  Basically it does:

Nothing insane about it.  If you're not going to use Xt, you have to
do the ICCCM stuff yourself (the app doesn't own the title bar, the
window manager does).  Interprocess communication is nontrivial.

    Andrew> 	As Marcus mentioned, you need to do this by way of the
    Andrew> window manager. The simplest way is to give a -name
    Andrew> parameter on the command line.

Not if it's not an Xt app, he doesn't.  It's Xt that supplies the
-name command line option.

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