Re: App titles in xterms appearing in wrong windows

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Brent Eagles wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I must be doing something obviously wrong, but I am having trouble with
> titles for programs running under X. The title changes do not appear on

some applications use the cygwin-specific call to write the title-string,
rather than use xterm's escape string.

> my xterm but on the console window where I started X. This doesn't seem
> to be strictly related to running Cygwin/X in rootless mode. When I run
> X with a root window and use a window manager (WindowMaker), the same
> thing happens. This is a big pain since I have to cycle through all of
> my xterms to find the one where I'm running mutt, emacs, etc. Is this
> expected behavior?
>
> For what it's worth, my CYGWIN environment variable is contains binmode,
> tty and title.
>
> I've done a bit of searching and all I can find is title issues related
> to setting the xterm window to display the current path (which works
> fine for me btw).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brent
>
>
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