Re: request: display user name in wm title

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:46 AM,  <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Two things:
> * The application sets the main-window title to be just the application name. 
> Anything like "as emelFM2" in a window title is added by your 
> window-manager/system.
>
Hmm, I think that apps can broadcast a custom main-window title. At
least emel does so for child windows, such as "emelFM2: displaying
file". As for the main window, on Xfce I see various apps broadcasting
custom main-window titles. For example,
- Pidgin's main window displays 'Buddy list',
- Geany displays '<filename> - <path> - Geany'
- gnome-mplayer displays '<filename> - GNOME MPlayer'

Do you think emel's title could also be customised?


> * OTOH, the user is shown at the left-side of the footer
>
> IIRC, once there was some discussion about removing the latter to save space 
> in the footer, but the strongest opinion was to leave it as is.
>
User name would generally take only a fraction of the path length.
And, indeed, removing it would make it cumbersome to distinguish
between two emel instances.

Regards
Liviu


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