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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:STAR::VATNE
Created:Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3726
Total number of notes:19516

1189.0. "DECterm's all = 1" by ZEBDEE::HAIGH (Being born is a way of escaping) Fri Jul 28 1989 07:14

    Hi folks,
    
    Is this an Ultrix thing or windows,  I've got a VS2000 and UWS V2.1.
    
    My session manager prints things like:
    
    	Starting Process 108 "dxterm2"
    
    the only problem is that no matter what the number the session manager
    thinks a DECterm has, each DECterm displays itself as DECterm 1,
    even in the icon box, it gets very confusing trying to id each window.
    
    Yours, hopeful of a solution.
    
    Andy H

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1189.1You can change the title in UWS V2.2HANNAH::MESSENGERBob MessengerFri Jul 28 1989 12:4225
Re: .0

In UWS V2.2 (currently in field test) you can change the titles and icon names
of your windows (in Customize Window or with OSC sequences, or on the dxterm
command line), which will solve the problem of every window having the same
title.  This won't happen automatically, although you could write a shell
script that set your title and icon name to the process name, for example.

In UWS V2.0 the title was just DECterm.  In UWS V2.1 I merged in some code
from VMS, in which the first window on a DECterm controller is called
DECterm 1, the second is called DECterm 2, etc.  This is useful on VMS
because (in general) all of the DECterm windows on a workstation are controlled
by the same DECterm process.  It isn't very useful on Ultrix, though, because
each DECterm window has it's own DECterm controller process, which means that
DECterm window has a title of DECterm 1.  For that reason, in a later baselevel
of UWS V2.2 I'm changing the default title back to DECterm (on Ultrix only).

As a wish list item, some day I'd like to make the Ultrix version of DECterm
more like the VMS version, so window have different titles and don't all
start at the same position, for example.  It's not clear how this should be
implemented; it could be done by the session manager or perhaps with
environment variables.  It's too late to change this in UWS V2.2, though.

				-- Bob

1189.2You can always specify icon/window title on dxterm command lineCOOKIE::KITTELLRichard - Architected Info MgmtFri Jul 28 1989 18:407
   Until the automated solutions are available, you can specify the title
   of the icon and window on the command line:

    % dxterm -xrm "*title: mumble" \
             -xrm "*iconName: fratz" &