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<3315c029-529c-128b-521a-2fceb7a7f557 AT gmail DOT com> From: Thomas Wolff Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 22:28:57 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3315c029-529c-128b-521a-2fceb7a7f557@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:vnPl94MNeEY=:VNRSnLccr5dS0Aaji1H3XZ EIdzy5DfvZnATuj+CEh/Y9+fKox6iwiy5fB3/eapgs7F3ZoM+wGAOCYGygva05hEA4SVO0Kif ESacIKNnQITAoh6TGSKcfyqOG2mxpo7LCF5cdTRhaqX4D6tQrR2mGAZThFhfuY3xVJnrjYmRO qthNcULxrXaf7RuPjTlkeO+dZC8hnLjZ0iW74T6ngWmdf0l5Ko1mFI3mCjlo4zDNU/o+upoWq Dna0gV1GU/QbzNAS8jKrUoNXBR2ZF0B4ZR0u9M5PnMhXS1gFRSTKXMn+aHqnwVSHAL/TNrfFT lDKvxe8qxEjW9vnNcHsIxNSGQwJrYgrtpY+SNZQ0xFPPPv3r32wUNi07doFzrrfKdxe7lNwnG LT3gYHN1KvpNh1XENSu0nF8dYMoZq2pEEpLl8zXxyaLXHj3iSzFMBypgAVn759GT30gzqfCEH ihIEJ99zCH0BK34nEaU5xy9SJBE81GmK3DNkwXo4oTLLcb+t1s4GXK/G5/NcPOk7rR8BUd29L xxLZbx4+7jZwfAuKFUp6qrj4SP8+rUh8KcLQ7BffWyVBvBAxMwmpY9/kLavEfgiNU2BLIJupg uFw5cOogtkOtl2Zb6w+FPtkj9bn6+QZYdCIqo4ODWU22o1P9FN+9jfzL5R9Ts3OSUSAercq3/ BKXegF48olNv8TjEUN1OrnrOvtddIR7ScYBk/jXAoHoSNuTmNywCynU6WVltkxbSHshz+WfEN 5DkbDrfJ9/Aj9rYiciT0F+Ydmium/i5NEyLuKiqRybeZSvOQVxf0Eb1pnvw= X-IsSubscribed: yes Am 03.11.2017 um 21:03 schrieb cyg Simple: > On 11/3/2017 3:23 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Am 03.11.2017 um 16:34 schrieb cyg Simple: >>> On 11/2/2017 3:55 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>>> Am 02.11.2017 um 14:38 schrieb cyg Simple: >>>>> On 11/2/2017 2:47 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>>>>> Thanks, Brian, for the links and the sample code which will make it >>>>>> easier. >>>>>> This is about changing the icon, to get that sorted out. >>>>>> I referred to changing the icon label (an existing sequence >>>>>> supported by >>>>>> xterm), i.e. the text shown in the taskbar, which cannot be changed in >>>>>> Windows as far as I know as it's always the same as the window title. >>>>> RXVT managed to change the title based on the xterm escape sequences. >>>>> I've used that idea for various server connections in the past with >>>>> RXVT. >>>> Rxvt does not support more than mintty. >>> I wasn't trying to say that it did. >>> >>>> We are not talking about window frame labels (window title) >>>> but the labels that appear next to the icons in the Windows taskbar, or >>>> (if configured away) popup up floating there. >>>> >>> I have 3 chrome icons with different profile icons overlayed onto the >>> primary icon in the bottom right pinned to my taskbar so that is doable. >>> The frame labels help when you hover over the taskbar icon with >>> multiple windows so you can pick which to bring to the front. It sounds >>> though as if what is wanted is more the distinguished profile similar to >>> chrome. I can achieve that effect with differing installs (different >>> paths) of Cygwin so it must be doable with one install and multiple >>> profiles. >> Trying to guess what you refer to there still seems to be >> misunderstanding. The issue was to have a dedicated text label >> associated to the taskbar icon which is different from the window frame >> title of the same window. There are two distinct xterm sequence to set >> these within an X server but this is not supported by Windows. > Oh, my confusion here is that I always hide labels. I have so many > pinned gets rid of the confusion. But chrome manages to change the text > of the icon based on the profile. > > With chrome I can "Manage People" and add more than one profile. I can > then pin each profile to the taskbar. Each profile contains a different > set of saved passwords, bookmarks and other data. There is only one > executable with different text for each icon on the task bar. Chrome self-draws its window frame and does not display a window title at all. It's easy then to reuse the window title as an icon-only title. -- 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