Bug 21755 – emerge erases window's title

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22664
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Peter Simons 2003-05-27 05:13:49 UTC]

Apparently, the new version of emerge uses the window's title line to display
status information during merging, when run under X11. My problem is that emerge
seems to reset the window title to "xterm" when it's done -- no matter what the
window used to be called before!

This is certainly not a major problem, but I personally find it annoying because
I use "named windows" all the time, to keep track of where I'm logged into what
machine and as which user.

IMHO, emerge should either re-set the exact title that used to be set before
emerge was called, or it should not mess with the window titles AT ALL.

[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-05-27 06:22:14 UTC]

maybe belongs to bug #21430 

[Comment 2 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-05-29 03:52:29 UTC]

If you set that form the prompt, you shouldn't be having a problem.
Setting the title back to it's original form is not trivial, as I've
discovered... I'd either have to use Xlib or a fairly large hack.

If it's a problem, set FEATURES=notitles

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2003-08-04 08:37:05 UTC]

theres a patch at Bug 22664

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2003-08-04 08:37:10 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22664 ***