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Fixed bug #113:
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 08:39:22 +1000
From: "Eric Mangold"
Subject: [SDL] Window manager does not show SDL window titles
Hello,
I have an issue with SDL-using applications and the sawfish window manager.
The problem is that SDL windows do not show the window caption. My gnome
panel *does* show the window name, but the actual sawfish window frame
shows no caption at all. All other non-SDL applications that I use work
fine.
I tried a couple other window managers, and they *were* able to show the
SDL window captions correctly. Though there many be other WMs that can't.
I believe the problem is that SDL is using the UTF8_STRING type for the
window's WM_NAME and WM_ICON properties. In fact, WM_NAME and WM_ICON are
supposed to set to a TEXT type, usually STRING (ISO 8859-1).
The property names _NET_WM_NAME and _NET_WM_ICON_NAME should be used to
store the UTF8_STRING versions of the window title and icon name.
You can see the properties I refer to with a command like this:
xprop|grep -e "WM.*NAME"
Please note the freedesktop.org standard:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html#id2506954
This page talks a little bit about the history of these properties. Just
search down the page for "WM_NAME".
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
Please let me know if I can be of any assistance in resolving this issue.
Thanks,
Eric Mangold
author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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date | Mon, 20 Mar 2006 07:31:36 +0000 |
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<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Time</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="SDL Library Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="SDL Reference" HREF="reference.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="SDL_CondWaitTimeout" HREF="sdlcondwaittimeout.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="SDL_GetTicks" HREF="sdlgetticks.html"><META NAME="KEYWORD" CONTENT="time"><META NAME="KEYWORD" CONTENT="function"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ee" VLINK="#551a8b" ALINK="#ff0000" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >SDL Library Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdlcondwaittimeout.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdlgetticks.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="TIME" ></A >Chapter 13. Time</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlgetticks.html" >SDL_GetTicks</A > -- Get the number of milliseconds since the SDL library initialization.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdldelay.html" >SDL_Delay</A > -- Wait a specified number of milliseconds before returning.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdladdtimer.html" >SDL_AddTimer</A > -- Add a timer which will call a callback after the specified number of milliseconds has elapsed.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlremovetimer.html" >SDL_RemoveTimer</A > -- Remove a timer which was added with <A HREF="sdladdtimer.html" >SDL_AddTimer</A >.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="sdlsettimer.html" >SDL_SetTimer</A > -- Set a callback to run after the specified number of milliseconds has elapsed.</DT ></DL ></DIV ><P >SDL provides several cross-platform functions for dealing with time. It provides a way to get the current time, a way to wait a little while, and a simple timer mechanism. These functions give you two ways of moving an object every x milliseconds: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Use a timer callback function. This may have the bad effect that it runs in a seperate thread or uses alarm signals, but it's easier to implement.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Or you can get the number of milliseconds passed, and move the object if, for example, 30 ms passed.</P ></LI ></UL > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sdlcondwaittimeout.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sdlgetticks.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >SDL_CondWaitTimeout</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="reference.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >SDL_GetTicks</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >