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

/* Simple test of the SDL threading code and error handling */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <signal.h>

#include "SDL.h"
#include "SDL_thread.h"

static int alive = 0;

/* Call this instead of exit(), so we can clean up SDL: atexit() is evil. */
static void quit(int rc)
{
	SDL_Quit();
	exit(rc);
}

int ThreadFunc(void *data)
{
	/* Set the child thread error string */
	SDL_SetError("Thread %s (%d) had a problem: %s",
			(char *)data, SDL_ThreadID(), "nevermind");
	while ( alive ) {
		printf("Thread '%s' is alive!\n", (char *)data);
		SDL_Delay(1*1000);
	}
	printf("Child thread error string: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
	return(0);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	SDL_Thread *thread;

	/* Load the SDL library */
	if ( SDL_Init(0) < 0 ) {
		fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't initialize SDL: %s\n",SDL_GetError());
		return(1);
	}

	/* Set the error value for the main thread */
	SDL_SetError("No worries");

	alive = 1;
	thread = SDL_CreateThread(ThreadFunc, "#1");
	if ( thread == NULL ) {
		fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't create thread: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
		quit(1);
	}
	SDL_Delay(5*1000);
	printf("Waiting for thread #1\n");
	alive = 0;
	SDL_WaitThread(thread, NULL);

	printf("Main thread error string: %s\n", SDL_GetError());

	SDL_Quit();
	return(0);
}