xwininfo fails to convert window title string.
mikolaj
mikolaj at lavabit.com
Fri Apr 13 08:22:28 PDT 2012
Hello,
I encountered a problem which makes it impossible to use some programs
that depend on an ability to retrieve window title:
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mikolaj at xxx ~ $ xwininfo
xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
would like information by clicking the
mouse in that window.
xwininfo: Window id: 0x2400068 " (failure in conversion from UTF8_STRING
to ANSI_X3.4-1968)"
Absolute upper-left X: 0
Absolute upper-left Y: 54
Relative upper-left X: 0
Relative upper-left Y: 23
Width: 1400
Height: 996
Depth: 24
Visual: 0x21
Visual Class: TrueColor
Border width: 0
Class: InputOutput
Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Backing Store State: NotUseful
Save Under State: no
Map State: IsViewable
Override Redirect State: no
Corners: +0+54 -0+54 -0-0 +0-0
-geometry 1400x996+0-0
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The window I targeted was firefox browser with exactly one tab opened,
on website http://allegro.pl. I am not sure if I can include the title
(it is fully visible on the window bar) here as it contains non-english
characters. However the url is valid and one can easily check if this
behaviour can be reproduced. Moreover I wasn`t able to find any other
website that would cause such behaviour.
The relevant applications versions:
xwininfo-1.1.2
libX11-1.4.4
xorg-server-1.11.2-r2
The system is GNU/Linux, stable gentoo.
Regards,
Mikolaj Paraniak
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