From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Can I change the windows icon from command line?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8364d12f-dbaf-268c-dc16-07ce86fcbf5f@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08097030.20171102131158@yandex.ru>
Hi Andrey,
> Greetings, Thomas Wolff!
>
>> 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.
> Two thoughts on this:
>
> 1. The taskbar button title is not necessarily the same as [visible]
> application window title.
> One of the cleanest solutions is to create a frameless main window and embed
> your actual application window inside it. Downside is that the visible
> application window titlebar may not look right.
> Another solution is to create two windows, one only shown in taskbar, one is
> an actual app window, and repost all messages from taskbar to the application
> window. Downside is that not all shell features may work properly, such as
> minimize-restore on repeated clicks.
> In support of this feature, I can say that I have restricted space for taskbar
> labels myself (approx 10 symbols) and have to be creative with window titles
> from various sources to clearly identify the windows.
> That including dances with /etc/debian_chroot and manual PROMPT_COMMAND settings.
Yeah, I can imagine that some *very* tricky solution with hidden windows
is possible,
but I'm sure at the price of lots of nerves and extensible testing.
I don't think it's worth the effort, especially as many people use icons
only on the taskbar, not the labels.
But feel free to propose a patch :)
> 2. Since there's no direct solution for setting window icon, an existing
> sequence could be reused for our purpose, since there's no clean way to make
> it work straight. Or a new sequence could be invented.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-02 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-01 2:42 P RC
2017-11-01 6:08 ` Brian Inglis
2017-11-01 20:59 ` Thomas Wolff
2017-11-01 21:06 ` bzs
2017-11-01 21:10 ` Thomas Wolff
2017-11-02 2:39 ` Brian Inglis
2017-11-02 6:47 ` Thomas Wolff
2017-11-02 10:20 ` Andrey Repin
2017-11-02 19:53 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
2017-11-02 13:38 ` cyg Simple
2017-11-02 19:55 ` Thomas Wolff
2017-11-03 15:34 ` cyg Simple
2017-11-03 19:23 ` Thomas Wolff
2017-11-03 20:03 ` cyg Simple
2017-11-03 21:29 ` Thomas Wolff
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