Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:54:30 +1200 Jochen Schroeder > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > >> Paul Stejskal wrote: >> >>> Jochen Schroeder wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I want to remember some windows by title, which does not work. Using >>>> xprop WM_NAME shows the right title (the string displayed in the >>>> title bar), however the e windows properties dialog only shows the >>>> title field empty. Matching icons by manually setting the title does >>>> not work either. Any hints? >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Jochen >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Under advanced, remember it by everything (Transience, etc.) under >>> that section. >>> Paul >>> >>> >> First, that is not really what I want to do. Second it does not work >> either. Well for more information what I want to do is open a specific >> file in gvim and have it always appear on one virtual desktop. The best >> way of doing this would be using the title, as that is where the edited >> file is being shown in gvim. However this does not work. I think I had >> >> it working for other programs before so I'm starting to think it might >> >> be a bug introduced in the recent changes. > > no - title in this case is probably not going to work. here is why. > > gvim starts. it creates a window. it asks to show it. now it loads the file. > it > now CHANGES the title. > > there is a RACE condition. e may get to managing the window before or after > the > title has been changed - remember that x is asynchronous - the title may > happen > before or after e deals with the map request. order of operation is only > guaranteed within 1 x11 connection. if titles are being changed then matching > using a title is a mater of sheer luck - at the time a window appears, is the > title then set to what it is meant to match to. if it ALWAYS is (app sets > title > before issuing a map request) ten it will work - always. if it does the title > change later - it might works sometimes, and other times not. > I now I get it, makes sense. I actually tried with several different apps, but seems like all were changing their title, I just tried with an application which didn't and it worked. Thanks for the explanation. OK now I have to think of another way of doing what I want.
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