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Bug 491114 - Metacity does not ellipsize window titles when they are oversized
Metacity does not ellipsize window titles when they are oversized
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
trunk
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Alex Turner
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks: 479107
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-28 16:41 UTC by Alex Turner
Modified: 2015-02-18 21:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Alex Turner 2007-10-28 16:41:28 UTC 
A window title that is too large does not get ellipsized, but just get truncated at the edge of the label.  It should be ellipsized.
Comment 1 Thomas Thurman 2008-03-03 18:24:32 UTC 
See also bug 479107.
Comment 2 William Jon McCann 2009-08-15 01:01:49 UTC 
There is a patch in bug 591842
Comment 3 Alberts Muktupāvels 2015-02-18 21:34:40 UTC 
This was fixed in 3.14.0 with patches from mutter.