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Bug 684239 - image-title-format string utterly ignored
image-title-format string utterly ignored
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 321707
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
2.8.0
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-09-17 17:41 UTC by Tom Horsley
Modified: 2012-09-17 22:53 UTC
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Description Tom Horsley 2012-09-17 17:41:06 UTC 
Every image window gets the window title "GNU Image Manipulation Program" all the time on my fedora 17 box, the image-title-format string is apparently utterly ignored. For a long time I thought this was just another annoying change that came with all the other changes in 2.8, but when I finally started poking around I found the docs for gimprc and the image-title-format setting, so it is apparently a bug and not a feature.
Comment 1 Michael Natterer 2012-09-17 18:02:51 UTC 
I have never heard this, seems to work fine on all platforms and all
X11 window managers I've seen so far. What WM is this?
Comment 2 Tom Horsley 2012-09-17 18:17:05 UTC 
I'm running fvwm, but I have no problems with any other tools modifying their window titles (firefox and chrome for instance modify the title to include the current web page title).
Comment 3 Michael Natterer 2012-09-17 19:06:27 UTC 
Could you check if the findings in bug #321707 apply to this case?
Comment 4 Michael Natterer 2012-09-17 19:08:11 UTC 
What I mean is: please use xprop on the GIMP window and check
WM_NAME and _NET_WM_NAME.
Comment 5 Tom Horsley 2012-09-17 19:29:20 UTC 
That seems to be related. I see this:

WM_NAME(STRING) = "GNU Image Manipulation Program"

_NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "[zooty-head-2] (imported)-1.0 (RGB color, 1 layer) 353x265 \342\200\223 GIMP"

So I guess fvwm is only looking at WM_NAME (though there are 47,621,229
fvwm style options and wot-not, so maybe it can pay attention to
_NEST_WM_NAME as well :-).
Comment 6 Michael Natterer 2012-09-17 21:50:03 UTC 
Heh indeed it could, resolving as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 321707 ***
Comment 7 Tom Horsley 2012-09-17 22:53:32 UTC 
Yep, some fvwm magic to give gimp windows a special style with a different title font and font encoding, and I can see the useful window title now.