^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. > 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. 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. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 11.05.2012, <12:50> Sorry for my terrible english...

X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,KHOP_THREADED,MIME_BASE64_BLANKS,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 12:52:30 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <267755386.20120511125230@mtu-net.ru> To: Andy Koppe , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: mintty suggestion In-Reply-To: References: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F2045DA580 AT A1DAL1SWPES19MB DOT ams DOT acs-inc DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1251 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id q4B966SE008819 Greetings, Andy Koppe! >> 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. > 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. 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. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 11.05.2012, <12:50> Sorry for my terrible english...