gwp@hss.caltech.edu (G. W. Pigman III) (01/06/90)
Is there a way to force the IconManager to use the title (as specified by -title) instead of the name of the program? I have xterms running on different machines, and when they are iconified, I forget which one is which. -- -Mac Pigman gwp@hss.caltech.edu (internet) pigman@caltech.bitnet (bitnet)
bruce@hpihoah.HP.COM (Bruce LaVigne) (01/09/90)
> / gwp@hss.caltech.edu (G. W. Pigman III) / 7:36 pm Jan 5, 1990 / > Is there a way to force the IconManager to use the title (as specified > by -title) instead of the name of the program? I have xterms > running on different machines, and when they are iconified, I forget > which one is which. > -- > -Mac Pigman > gwp@hss.caltech.edu (internet) > pigman@caltech.bitnet (bitnet) > ---------- I use the -n option, which specifies icon name for twm to use. Almost always, my -title and my -n string are the same, but it's nice to set them separately. -bruce
kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson) (01/10/90)
> I use the -n option, which specifies icon name for twm to use. This option also changes the resource names so that the command: xterm -name xclock would match the following resources: xclock*Background: Blue xclock*Foreground: Red instead of these: xterm*Background: Blue xterm*Foreground: Red > Almost always, my -title and my -n string are the same, but it's nice to set > them separately. This is why ``title'' and ``name'' are seperate options, they really do different things. Chris D. Peterson MIT X Consortium Net: kit@expo.lcs.mit.edu Phone: (617) 253 - 9608 Address: MIT - Room NE43-213
swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (01/10/90)
>>[Bruce] >> I use the -n option, which specifies icon name for twm to use. >[Chris] >This option also changes the resource names so that the command: No, actually it doesn't in the case of xterm. For historical reasons (which are probably now very inappropriate), '-n' in xterm is *not* an abbreviation for '-name' but rather is short-hand for '-xrm *iconName:', exactly as Bruce suggests. I would urge everyone to try to get out of the habit of using xterm's -n just because it is the only client that has it, to avoid the confusion.