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- From: bruce@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Bruce Sams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: HPView Icon Labels: Meaningful text?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.083349.993@cfa160.harvard.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 08:33:49 GMT
- Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Well, here goes with another silly question about HPView. We connect to
- other machines very often via remsh or rlogin, and often the screens get
- crowded with windows. When these windows are iconified, they have
- icon labels like "xterm" or "rlogin". Is it possible to make the label,
- when iconified, into a meaningful string? I have a nifty way of making the
- xwindows title bar show "HOST:currentdirectory", and would like to have
- that remain as the icon label. I tried switching on "activelabel" in the
- Vuewm*iconDecoration option, and also starting xterm with a -T $HOST call,
- but all to no avail. I read in the manual that the label get its string from
- the clients WM_ICON_NAME value. So what is WM_ICON_NAME anyway, and
- how do I get at it? Is it possible to do this? To make the icon labels
- reflect precisely where the window the represent is pointing?
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- Many thanks,
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- Bruce Sams.
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