Re: xterm title setting breaks when upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit cygwin

[Jeremy Elson <jelson at gmail dot com>]

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> On 01/08/2013 01:55, Jeremy Elson wrote:
> > I recently upgraded from the 32-bit to the 64-bit build of Cygwin
> > 1.7.22 on Windows 8 x64. For the most part, everything works
> > identically (except faster!). But I have noticed one problem: xterm no
> > longer seems to respond to the magic escape codes that change its
> > title. My shell uses this to update the title to reflect the current
> > hostname and working directory, but after the upgrade all my xterms
> > just have the same title: "tcsh".
> >
> > I haven't seen any mention of this bug on the mailing lists. Is anyone
> > else experiencing this problem?
>
> Thanks for pointing out this problem.
>
> It seems that x86_64 X server has a bug that meant that no window could
> change
> it's title after it started.
>
> I've uploaded a snapshot at [1]. Perhaps you could try that and see if it
> improves things for you?
>
> [1]
> ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.x86_64.20130801-git-beadc5a3202e096a.exe.bz2
>

Thanks for the very fast followup - yes, using the XWin binary below, my xterm
can now set its title correctly!

Thanks again, and regards,
Jeremy

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