Nikos Leonardos <nikos.leonar...@gmail.com> writes: G> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 08:15:09PM -0400, des...@verizon.net wrote: >> >> Perhaps the xboard developers could be persuaded to add a -name or >> -wmname type option. >> >> I don't think I saw a complete list of their X Resources. >> Perhaps there is something that can be set that way. >> > > Thanks Dan! It's funny, but after seeing your reply, I tried > > # xboard -name myname > > and the resource of the window was set to myname. I'm not sure > this is correct behaviour of xboard (I think -name is supposed > to do something else), but it works for now. > > Any better solutions would be appreciated.
I missed it in the docs but perhaps the toolkit they are using supplied it and they weren't aware. Or maybe I just missed it. Anyway using -name is the classical, preferred way to go. I don't think anything else could qualify as better. -- Dan Espen
