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Re: Title changing is unimplemented in MultiWindow mode
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:22:12 -0500
- Subject: Re: Title changing is unimplemented in MultiWindow mode
- References: <F784EFkQH5f1d1BZ9cR00006f46@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:03:05PM -0500, Jack Tanner wrote:
>Harold says:
>>title changes are a feature of X Window Managers that the MultiWindow
>>Window Manager does not yet implement.
>
>It seems to me that if there's a window manager that's released under a
>compatible license that does implement title changing, we could "just"
>borrow that code (with credit given where due, of course). I suspect that
>WindowMaker wouldn't fit that profile since it's licensed under the GPL,
>but perhaps some other window manager would.
>
>Or Harold or Kensuke or someone could just show their brilliance by coding
>up this little featurette over the weekend. :)
I think for multi-window mode, it would just be a "simple" matter of
calling SetConsoleTitle. Sounds like a nice project for someone to get
their toes wet in cygwin-xfree development.
cgf