^G >>> to set icon title: ESC ] 1 ; <title> ^G >>> >>> Analogously, it would be nice if Mintty would allow me to independently >>> set the titles of the window and the associated taskbar button. From: Andy Koppe >> As far as I know, Windows doesn't have a way to set different titles >> for a window and its taskbar button. Hence you'll find that the icon >> title sequence doesn't work in xterm running on Xwin in multiwindow >> mode either. From: Andrey Repin > Many programs do it in a slightly different manner. > They set different titles for active window, and minimized and/or inactive > window. > Say, you wanna track some progress with a progress bar/percentage. > When window is active, you can track it upfront, but when it's minimized, the > only way to tell is an icon in taskbar. FWIW, I would find that useful: Mintty allowing setting separate titles for active and minimized windows. --Ken Nellis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: mintty suggestion Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 08:51:12 -0500 Message-ID: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F2045DA6D0@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> In-Reply-To: <267755386.20120511125230@mtu-net.ru> References: <267755386.20120511125230@mtu-net.ru> From: "Nellis, Kenneth" To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q4BDpfIq026925 From: Ken Nellis >>> With X-Windows, one can independently set the titles of the terminal >>> window and the window's icon. >>> >>> to set window title: ESC ] 2 ; ^G >>> to set icon title: ESC ] 1 ; <title> ^G >>> >>> Analogously, it would be nice if Mintty would allow me to independently >>> set the titles of the window and the associated taskbar button. From: Andy Koppe >> As far as I know, Windows doesn't have a way to set different titles >> for a window and its taskbar button. Hence you'll find that the icon >> title sequence doesn't work in xterm running on Xwin in multiwindow >> mode either. From: Andrey Repin > Many programs do it in a slightly different manner. > They set different titles for active window, and minimized and/or inactive > window. > Say, you wanna track some progress with a progress bar/percentage. > When window is active, you can track it upfront, but when it's minimized, the > only way to tell is an icon in taskbar. FWIW, I would find that useful: Mintty allowing setting separate titles for active and minimized windows. --Ken Nellis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple