XSetWMName fails to set the window title

Jon Kristensen jon.kristensen at dedikerad.se
Tue Jun 12 12:56:22 PDT 2007


tis 2007-06-12 klockan 16:33 +0100 skrev Glynn Clements: 
> Jon Kristensen wrote:
> 
> > I have a little problem using the X11 library, and I thought there might
> > be someone on this list that wanted to help me out a bit. If this mail
> > is off-topic or something, then I'm sorry.
> > 
> > I want to set the window title, and below follows how I try to do it. I
> > know that the window handle unsigned long is correct, becuase I've
> > converted the number to hex and compared it to the output of `xwininfo'.
> > 
> > I get no errors, the window title just doesn't get set.
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated! :o)
> 
> > // Code for GNU systems goes here. We open the X11 display.
> > static Display *display = XOpenDisplay (NULL);
> 
> You should use the Display* which is associated with the window. A
> different Display* (even if it happens to refer to the same X server)
> may not work, as the X server will see two different clients: one owns
> the window, the other is calling XSetWMName(). The fact that both
> connections belong to the same process doesn't count (X may not even
> be aware of this, particularly if TCP connections are used).
> 
> Although I'm not certain that this is the cause of your problem, it
> could be, and I don't see anything else wrong with the code.

Thank you so very much for your reply, I've been trying to solve it on
my own but havn't succeded! It means a lot!

I have two questions:

1) How do I get the Display* that is associated with the window, like
you describe?

2) If this isn't the problem, how would you go about isolating the
problem? XSetWMName() returns void so I can't check for info there. I
call XSetWMName 15 times and tried recording the X events using Xnee*
but since I only got event ids and other numbers, it didn't give me very
much. The output from Xnee follows.

(Note that request range 18-20 covers X_ChangeProperty, X_DeleteProperty
and X_GetProperty.)

jon at localhost ~/Desktop/Xnee-2.06 $ ./cnee/src/cnee --record --request-range 18-20
####################################
#         System information       #
####################################
# Date:                   2007:06:12 
# Time:                   21:50:54 
# Xnee program:           cnee 
# Xnee version:           2.06 
# Xnee home:              http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee/ 
# Xnee info mailing list: info-xnee at gnu.org 
# Xnee bug mailing list:  bug-xnee at gnu.org 
# X version:              11 
# X revision:             0 
# X vendor:               The X.Org Foundation 
# X vendor release:       70200000 
# Record version major:   1
# Record version minor:   13
# OS name:                Linux 
# OS Release:             2.6.20-gentoo-r8 
# OS Version:             #7 SMP Mon Jun 4 19:23:47 CEST 2007 
# Machine:                x86_64 
# Nodename:               localhost 
# Display name:           :0.0
# Dimension:              3200x1200



##############################################
#      Xnee application arguments            #
##############################################
#  ./cnee/src/cnee --record --request-range 18-20 


##############################################
#      Displays                              #
##############################################
# display :0.0
# distribute


##############################################
#      Files                                 #
##############################################
# out-file stdout
# err-file stderr


##############################################
#      Key Grabs                             #
##############################################
# stop-key         0
# pause-key        0
# resume-key       0
# insert-key       0
# exec-key         0
# exec-key         xnee-exec-no-program


##############################################
#      Recording limits etc                  #
##############################################

events-to-record        -1
data-to-record          -1
seconds-to-record       -1
first-last       0

# Record  all (including current) clients or only future ones
all-clients
# future-clients

# Store the starting mouse position 
# store-mouse-position


##############################################
#      Resolution                            #
##############################################

# Resolution
#recorded-resolution  3200x1200
#replay-resolution  1x1
#resolution-adjustment  0


##############################################
#      Speed                                 #
##############################################

# Speed
#speed-percent  100


##############################################
#      Replaying limits etc                  #
##############################################

max-threshold 20 
min-threshold 20 
tot-threshold 40 


##############################################
#      Feedback                              #
##############################################
#feedback-none
#feedback-stderr
feedback-xosd
 


##############################################
#      Various                               #
##############################################

# Plugin file 
# plugin       (null)

# Modes (currently not used)
#synchronised-replay       1

# Replay offset
#xnee_replay_offset 0x0

# Human printout of X11 data (instead of Xnee format)
# human-printout  

# Delay before starting record/replay
# time 0

# Various
#########################################
#          Record settings              #
#########################################
#   data_flags          7
#   rState              5444448
#   xids[0]             3
#   xids[1]             0
# Number of Ranges      1
# RecordRange[0]
request-range            18-20
reply-range                   0-0 
extension-request-major-range  0-0 
extension-request-minor-range  0-0 
extension-reply-major-range   0-0
extension-reply-minor-range   0-0 
delivered-event-range         21-21 
device-event-range            0-0 
error-range                   0-0 

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1,20,20,6,31460657,986090
sighandler SIGINT (2)

-- 
Jon Kristensen



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