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From: franco@cs.UAlberta.CA (Franco Carlacci)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: changing title in title bar (twm)
Keywords: properties,twm
Message-ID: <1990Mar17.000956.15684@cs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 17 Mar 90 00:09:56 GMT
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Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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I'd like to have my current directory appear in the title bar. How is this
done? I have a binary of a program called 'mytitle' that does this,
(it came with an old distribution  of twm) but I'd like to see the
actual code itself. 

xprop tells me that the title is a property. So I tried the following call:

  XChangeProperty(dpy,win,XA_WM_NAME,
                  XA_STRING,8,PropModeReplace,"hi mom",6);

but nothing happened. Am I on the right track?

Please email any info.

thanks,

franco


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