Re: [RP] defwintitle patch

[Pasi Kallinen]

On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Jonathan Walther wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 06:57:43PM +0300, Pasi Kallinen wrote:
> >Here's a patch that adds a new command "defwintitle".
> >When you've set that, the next window that gets created will be named
> >as if you did the "title" -command for that window.
>
> Thank you for the patch, but the correct solution is to use "startup
> notification", a standard agreed on by the GNOME and KDE projects.
> Applications need to have startup notification code added, and then it
> is just a matter of making ratpoison do whatever it wants with that
> information.  What do you want to do with it?  Give a particular window
> name to the window of an app you start?  That is the way to do it.

The correct solution isn't always a feasible one.

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