Window title issue

A co-worker asked me to post this:

Anyone know how to control the banner at the top of my layout window?
It used to say "Virtuoso: Editing/Reading libName cellName viewName"
Now it just says "Virtuoso". Not sure how I messed it up. Im using FVWM
version 2.4.19. Though fvwm is not officially supported, Ive been using
it for a long time without any trouble.

I can set the banner using hiSetWindowName(getCurrentWindow() string),
but I want the default behavior back that updated any time you open or
descend into a cell.

Karl

 

I'm wondering whether this is a window manager bug where it doesn't know the
(R) symbol (the registered symbol - a small R in a circle), and it's giving up
with the rest of the window name.

I vaguely recall seeing this (I was using fvwm2 a lot until recently) - perhaps
it's a font issue?

I doubt very much whether there's some SKILL code setting the window name
to just Virtuoso, so this seems the most likely explanation.

Regards,

Andrew.

 

Karl

This is an issue with window managers that do not support ISO-8859-1
charset for the title. ICCCM spec says they should(an old spec that
should be scrapped). I know WindowMaker supports only UTF-8. Some older
ones probably do only ASCII.

I haven't figured out the use of that ® yet. Perhaps Cadence is
somewhat uncertain that we know about Virtuoso being a registered
trademark!

Satya

 

Yep. They are a bit uncertained we could not notice from the invoice,
that we can not by it from someone else. Not with the same name.

 

Andrew,

I have seen this window title look ridiculous because of the locale
setting in CDE/motif. That affects font paths. Why not make that a PCR
to remove all non-7bit ascii from the title ?

 

It's a window manager problem.

Use 'fvwm2' instead, if it's available.

fergus

 

A patch for this in FVWM has been posted to FVWM Forums

I've posted a hack to fix this issue (by replacing the copyright character with a space) to the FVWM forums at fvwmforums.org.

If you don't feel up to hacking/compiling fvwm yourself and can't get someone to do it for you, you can also play Skill games to bypass this. Say with:

(defun fixTBar () (hiSetWindowName (hiGetCurrentWindow), (buildString (mapcar '(lambda (x) (if (strcmp x "~") < 0 then x else "")) (parseString (hiGetWindowName (hiGetCurrentWindow)) "")) "")))

You can register a trigger (via deRegUserTriggers) to run this on a Cadence window open event.

Nice to tie up loose ends, even if it is 7 years later.

Enjoy,

-A

 

Ooops. Left a comma in there. Corrected version:

(defun fixTBar () (hiSetWindowName (hiGetCurrentWindow) (buildString (mapcar '(lambda (x) (if (strcmp x "~") < 0 then x else "")) (parseString (hiGetWindowName (hiGetCurrentWindow)) "")) "")))