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From: uejio@diego.llnl.gov (Jeremy Uejio)
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Subject: Re: xterm bug ????????????????
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Date: 21 Mar 90 00:39:41 GMT
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In article <931@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> fmbutt@mrbt.sw.stratus.com (Farooq Butt) writes:
>I think I may be running into a silly bug with xterm.  I am using twm 
>under X11R4.  When I invoke xterm with a " -T 'mytitle_here' ", the 
>title does not get recorded at the iconmanager.  That is to say, if
>I say: 
>xterm -T 'foobar' 
>I see 'xterm' as the title in the twm iconmanager.  The window title is 
>OK (it reads "foobar" as you would expect). Now if I say: 
>xterm -T 'foobar' -e csh 
>The title at the iconmanager now changes to correctly read "foobar" 
>(the window title is also "foobar").
>Why do I have to put the "-e csh" at the end of my xterm invocation 
>to get the iconmanager to recognize my title ????????????
>help!
>Farooq Butt
>fmbutt@stratus.com

I had this problem, too until I realized that -T or -title sets
the window title and not necessarily the icon name.  

What you should do is use the -n option.  Note that this is *not*
the same as the -name option and is really shorthand for the
"*iconName" resource.

So use:

xterm -T 'foobar' -n 'foobar'


				jeremy uejio@lll-crg.llnl.gov