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List:       xmonad
Subject:    Re: [xmonad] setWMName
From:       Brandon Allbery <allbery.b () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-04-23 1:12:12
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Dominik Schrempf <
dominik.schrempf@gmail.com> wrote:

> For some days now I had freezes and problems (e.g. I had to refresh the
> workspace by switching back and forth to bring the user interface up to
> date) with Gnome GTK applications like gnome-terminal or nautilus when
> using xmonad without a loaded gnome-session (plain xmonad). I noticed,
> that this was due to an old setting in the xmonad configuration file:
>
> myStartupHook = setWMName "LG3D".
>
> I added this settings years ago to get Java applications to work. After
> several hours of trial and error I removed this line and the glitches
> and freezes vanished. I thought, that I should comment this here.
>

That seems a bit bizarre.

It might, however, provide a reason for me to test something I've wondered
about:  setWMName sets the WM_NAME property. What happens if we also set
_NET_WM_NAME, correctly (since Java doesn't look at it)?

-- 
brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates
allbery.b@gmail.com                                  ballbery@sinenomine.net
unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad        http://sinenomine.net

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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Dominik Schrempf <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dominik.schrempf@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">dominik.schrempf@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div \
class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">For some days \
now I had freezes and problems (e.g. I had to refresh the<br> workspace by switching \
back and forth to bring the user interface up to<br> date) with Gnome GTK \
applications like gnome-terminal or nautilus when<br> using xmonad without a loaded \
gnome-session (plain xmonad). I noticed,<br> that this was due to an old setting in \
the xmonad configuration file:<br> <br>
myStartupHook = setWMName &quot;LG3D&quot;.<br>
<br>
I added this settings years ago to get Java applications to work. After<br>
several hours of trial and error I removed this line and the glitches<br>
and freezes vanished. I thought, that I should comment this \
here.<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div style>That seems a bit \
bizarre.</div><div style><br></div><div style>It might, however, provide a reason for \
me to test something I&#39;ve wondered about:   setWMName sets the WM_NAME property. \
What happens if we also set _NET_WM_NAME, correctly (since Java doesn&#39;t look at \
it)?</div> <div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh          \
sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>                                               \
<a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" \
target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div> <div>unix, openafs, kerberos, \
infrastructure, xmonad            <a href="http://sinenomine.net" \
target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div> </div></div>



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