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Description of problem: virt-viewer doesn't open console form with specific name. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-viewer-0.5.2-5.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make sure there is a running guest. 2. Run #virt-viewer --name=test $guest Actual results: 1. Console form opened without specific name. Expected results: 1. Name of console form should be "test". Additional info: 1. If I use remote-viewer --name=test spice://127.0.0.1:5900, it will be OK.
I don't really understand what you're expecting to happen here. The '--name' option is a low level setting only ever used by legacy Window Managers and is not something you ever really want to set these days.
I reported this bug because of I can get the --name option from #virt-viewer --help-all command. And it works well in remote-viewer command, so I think it should do same thing in virt-viewer.
So in GLib there are two names maintained - program name - this is a named based on the 'argv[0]' of the binary, but overridable using '--name' - application name - this is a human friendly name, set by the application author The window title bars will include the application name, but if that is not set, they fallback to using the program name. The remote viewer program had forgotten to set the application name, so we were falling back to program name. This is why the --name argument was able to affect the window title., Once we fix remote viewer to have an applicaiton name set, the title bar will *not* be affected by the --name argument, and thus behave the same as virt-viewer does.
Fix upstream https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2012-April/msg00104.html
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Verified pass on the build virt-viewer-0.5.2-6.el6.x86_64 Reproduced steps: 1. Have a running guest. 2. run #remote-viewer --name=test spice://127.0.0.1:5900 3. run #remote-viewer --name=test vnc://127.0.0.1:5900 4. run #virt-viewer --name=test $guestname Actual result: 1. virt-viewer or remote-viewer form can be opened without any "name". Change this bug to VERIFIED.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0772.html