Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> writes: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 08:31:01PM -0400, Nikos Leonardos wrote: >> 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. > > But again, note my previous email. Per the xboard man page: > > -wname <full name> > -bname <full name> > -name <full name> > -oppname <full name> > The full name of White, Black, yourself or your opponent. > > Unfortunately, this is not the option per most other applications to set > the name of the window, which is mildly irritating. If this is setting the > name of the window to whatever you enter here, that's a coincidence, not > intended behaviour. > > I've patched xboard before. I think I might take a look over the weekend to > see how difficult it would be to add this option as I'm surprised it's > missing.
Tom, I saw those options but they are listed under the cmail program. Still, it could be that -name is meant to be something else and works by coincidence. -- Dan Espen
