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

Ethan Blanton elb at psg.com
Tue May 5 19:39:19 PDT 2009


Nathaniel Smith spake unto us the following wisdom:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Ethan Blanton <elb at psg.com> wrote:
> > ... 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.
> 
> The one downside to that is that WM_CLIENT_MACHINE may be used for
> other purposes as well, e.g.:
>   http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html#KILLINGWINDOWS

I don't see the problem, what am I missing?

Maybe we're talking about two different things ... I mean, if I run
emacs on foo against an xpra server on bar, and then connect an xpra
client on baz, the emacs window's WM_CLIENT_MACHINE should say 'colt'.
This should make everything Just Work, right?

Ethan

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