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Re: xterm no title (buster)

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On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 06:52:22PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> > > What about if you use another window-manager and/or desktop-environment?
> > 
> > I haven't tried that yet.
> 
> I just tried twm and it says "Untitled" even with xterm -T abcd &

Oh, that is a hint: it seems xterm is failing to tell the window
manager about "its title".

To verify/falsify that, you might run xprop on your xterm window.
The property you are looking for is called WM_NAME. You can even
use xprop to /set/ the window property -- this way you can be sure
whether it's xterm who is forgetting to do the right thing (that
would be a bug to file against xterm) or it's your window manager
ignoring it.

Relevant search term for all of that is ICCCM [2]

HTH, cheers

[1] It's in the package x11-utils
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICCCM

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xterm no title (buster) Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> - 2020-08-08 11:20 +0200
  Re: xterm no title (buster) Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2020-08-08 11:50 +0200
    Re: xterm no title (buster) Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> - 2020-08-08 13:10 +0200
      Re: xterm no title (buster) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-08-08 14:50 +0200
  Re: xterm no title (buster) "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-08-08 12:00 +0200
  Re: xterm no title (buster) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-08-08 14:30 +0200
    Re: xterm no title (buster) Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> - 2020-08-08 18:30 +0200
      Re: xterm no title (buster) Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> - 2020-08-08 19:00 +0200
        Re: xterm no title (buster) mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-08-08 21:00 +0200
        Re: xterm no title (buster) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-08-09 10:00 +0200
          Re: xterm no title (buster) Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> - 2020-08-10 12:20 +0200
            Re: xterm no title (buster) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-08-10 13:50 +0200
              Re: xterm no title (buster) Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> - 2020-08-10 19:10 +0200
                Re: xterm no title (buster) Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> - 2020-08-10 19:20 +0200
                Re: xterm no title (buster) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-08-10 19:40 +0200
              Re: xterm no title (buster) dickey@invisible-island.net - 2020-08-11 12:00 +0200
  Re: xterm no title (buster) Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2020-08-09 00:20 +0200
    Re: xterm no title (buster) Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> - 2020-08-09 00:20 +0200

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