Hi Thorsten, This is the first time I've seen mention of this issue, so resource name and class available to set is not something that we've previously discussed. One would either need to extend GraphicsContext::Traits to include the names, or have GraphicsWindowX11 have API for settings this. As the looks to be an X11 specific issue I'd suggest doing the later, but I would imagine that resources is something that other windowing systems would probably use as well.
I'm open to suggests about how best to resolve this issue, Robert. On 31 December 2011 12:01, ThorstenB <bre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > OSG currently only allows to set the name of a specific window > (GraphicsWindowX11::setWindowName), but it hard-codes the X11 application > name to "osgViewer". On GNOME3 desktops this results in the main status bar > always displaying "osgViewer" whenever any window of an OSG-based > application is active. Obviously I would like to set and see the actual name > of my own application instead. > > You can see a screen shot of the issue in the bug report here: > http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=554 > > The name originates from GraphicsWindowX11.cpp: > > // Give window a class so that user preferences can be saved in the > resource database. > XClassHint clH; > clH.res_name = (char *)"OSG"; > clH.res_class = (char *)"osgViewer"; > XSetClassHint( _display, _window, &clH); > > This also means that all OSG-based applications share the same user > preferences (whatever is saved there). Wouldn't it make sense to make the > name(s) configurable? At least the application name ("osgViewer"), maybe > also the class ("OSG")? > > Note that there is a difference between the application name and the name of > a specific window. The latter is shown in the title bar of the specific > window itself (I guess every platform/window manager does that). But prior > to GNOME3 I wasn't aware of places where the actual application name, which > is shared by all windows of a single application, was displayed. But this > name is certainly displayed most prominently on latest GNOME desktops. > > Oh, and have happy New Year! > > Thorsten > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
