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

These are test programs for the SDL library:

	testver		Check the version and dynamic loading and endianness
	testtypes	Check to see if the data types are the correct size
	testhread	Hacked up test of multi-threading
	testlock	Hacked up test of multi-threading and locking
	testerror	Tests multi-threaded error handling
	testsem		Tests SDL's semaphore implementation
	testtimer	Test the timer facilities
	loopwave	Audio test -- loop playing a WAV file
	testcdrom	Sample audio CD control program
	testkeys	List the available keyboard keys
	testvidinfo	Show the pixel format of the display and perfom the benchmark
	checkkeys	Watch the key events to check the keyboard
	testwin		Display a BMP image at various depths
	graywin		Display a gray gradient and center mouse on spacebar
	testsprite	Example of fast sprite movement on the screen
	testbitmap	Test displaying 1-bit bitmaps
	testalpha	Display an alpha faded icon -- paint with mouse
	testwm		Test window manager -- title, icon, events
	threadwin	Test multi-threaded event handling
	testgl		A very simple example of using OpenGL with SDL
	testjoystick	List joysticks and watch joystick events
	testoverlay	Tests the software/hardware overlay functionality.
	testoverlay2	Tests the overlay flickering/scaling during playback.
	testblitspeed	Tests performance of SDL's blitters and converters.