[Parti-discuss] [PATCH] allow xpra command line to specify window title suffix

[Ethan Blanton]

Nathaniel Smith spake unto us the following wisdom:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hmmm, I don't need that (not yet anyway), but it is a bit more flexible.
> > I guess EWMH-compliant info would do too, although in some cases it may
> > not be what the user is after: think 'home-PC' vs "ppp199-199...."
> 
> On further investigation, I misremembered -- it's actually a classic X
> thing. Basically, X apps are encouraged to call gethostname(3) and
> stuff whatever it returns into an X window property, and I think Xlib
> may just do this for you by default (certainly toolkits do). So it
> wouldn't be ppp199-blahblah, though it might be "WORKSTATION" or
> something. Metacity for instance already uses this information to
> append (on <whatever>) to apps using standard remote X forwarding.
> 
> Straw poll time!

None of the above.

Emacs (via xpra)

... with WM_CLIENT_MACHINE passed through transparently.  This seems
the most appropriate course of action.  I'm not even convinced the
(via xpra) should be there.

Ethan

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