Bug 186824 - Window List applet does not correctly follow changing window titles
Summary: Window List applet does not correctly follow changing window titles
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: metacity
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-26 22:27 UTC by Gérard Milmeister
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-05-10 18:57:11 UTC
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GNOME Bugzilla 330671 0 None None None Never

Description Gérard Milmeister 2006-03-26 22:27:02 UTC
Especially, when multiple tabs in a gnome-terminal have dynamic
titles, switching to another tab simply will display "Terminal"
in the window list. Only when the title of the current tab
is again updated (by the shell), then the text in window list
is correctly updated.
The text of tvtime is always "tvtime" in the window list,
although the actual window title display the program number and
title.

Comment 1 Gérard Milmeister 2006-03-26 22:29:16 UTC
Also, if the title of the terminal gets very long, the text
in the window list doesn't get changed anymore at all.

Comment 2 Rudi Chiarito 2006-04-11 13:32:57 UTC
I think I saw this advertised as a feature (to fix some other annoying
behaviour). I agree with the reporter that this is a regression instead.

Comment 3 Gérard Milmeister 2006-04-11 15:05:30 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> I think I saw this advertised as a feature (to fix some other annoying
> behaviour).
Hmm, for me the previous behaviour worked perfectly well. Now it is
neither consistent, nor predictable, as I explained in the first post.
Also, I consider that very long titles keep sticking a real bug.

Comment 4 Elijah Newren 2006-05-05 00:21:46 UTC
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330671

Also, this is a metacity bug (metacity doesn't clear _NET_WM_VISIBLE_NAME when
it gets a new window title that isn't too long)

Comment 5 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-05-10 18:57:11 UTC
Thanks Elijah.


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