bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Andreas Röhler]

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Hi,

currently, icon-title-format is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.

As it's displayed at the top, it would be helpful, if it could display 
the version, for example.

What about making it customizable?

Thanks,
Andreas

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bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 18:53:13 +0200
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
> 
> currently, icon-title-format is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
> 
> As it's displayed at the top, it would be helpful, if it could display the version, for example.
> 
> What about making it customizable?

What do you mean?  Can't you customize it now?

bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Andreas Röhler]

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Am 08.06.22 um 19:18 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
>> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 18:53:13 +0200
>> From: Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
>>
>> currently, icon-title-format is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
>>
>> As it's displayed at the top, it would be helpful, if it could display the version, for example.
>>
>> What about making it customizable?
> What do you mean?  Can't you customize it now?


Don't see how. Tried

(setq icon-title-format '(multiple-frames "%b" ("" invocation-name "@" 
emacs-version)))

with no effect.

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bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> Don't see how. Tried
>
> (setq icon-title-format '(multiple-frames "%b" ("" invocation-name "@" emacs-version)))
>
> with no effect. 

What window manager are you using, and which toolkit (if any) did you
build Emacs with?

bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Andreas Röhler]

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Am 09.06.22 um 03:46 schrieb Po Lu:
> Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>  writes:
>
>> Don't see how. Tried
>>
>> (setq icon-title-format '(multiple-frames "%b" ("" invocation-name "@" emacs-version)))
>>
>> with no effect.
> What window manager are you using, and which toolkit (if any) did you
> build Emacs with?


GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.32, 
cairo version 1.16.0) of 2022-06-04

Window manager is xfce distributed by Xubuntu.

Assume LightDM GTK+


from env:

XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=xubuntu
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=XFCE


from config.log:

C_SWITCH_X_SITE=' -pthread -isystem /usr/include/gtk-2.0 -isystem 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -isystem 
/usr/include/pango-1.0 -isystem /usr/include/atk-1.0 -isystem 
/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -isystem /usr/include/libmount -isystem 
/usr/include/blkid -isystem /usr/include/pango-1.0 -isystem 
/usr/include/fribidi -isystem /usr/include/cairo -isystem 
/usr/include/pixman-1 -isystem /usr/include/harfbuzz -isystem 
/usr/include/uuid -isystem /usr/include/freetype2 -isystem 
/usr/include/libpng16 -isystem /usr/include/glib-2.0 -isystem 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include'


GTK_CFLAGS='-pthread -isystem /usr/include/gtk-2.0 -isystem 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -isystem 
/usr/include/pango-1.0 -isystem /usr/include/atk-1.0 -isystem 
/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -isystem /usr/include/libmount -isystem 
/usr/include/blkid -isystem /usr/include/pango-1.0 -isystem 
/usr/include/fribidi -isystem /usr/include/cairo -isystem 
/usr/include/pixman-1 -isystem /usr/include/harfbuzz -isystem 
/usr/include/uuid -isystem /usr/include/freetype2 -isystem 
/usr/include/libpng16 -isystem /usr/include/glib-2.0 -isystem 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include'


GTK_LIBS='-lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo 
-lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 
-lharfbuzz -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lglib-2.0'

TOOLKIT_LIBW='-lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 
-lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 
-lgobject-2.0 -lharfbuzz -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lglib-2.0'



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bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> Window manager is xfce distributed by Xubuntu.
>
> Assume LightDM GTK+

And what do you expect to happen when that variable is set?

bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Andreas Röhler]

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Am 09.06.22 um 08:59 schrieb Po Lu:
> Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>  writes:
>
>> Window manager is xfce distributed by Xubuntu.
>>
>> Assume LightDM GTK+
> And what do you expect to happen when that variable is set?


BTW emacs-version is displayed instead of host-name after calling 
`dired-other-frame' - just not at the initial one.

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bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> BTW emacs-version is displayed instead of host-name after calling
> `dired-other-frame' - just not at the initial one.

I don't understand what you're trying to say.  Why are emacs-version and
dired-other-frame relevant?

bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Andreas Röhler]

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Am 09.06.22 um 10:07 schrieb Po Lu:
> Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>  writes:
>
>> BTW emacs-version is displayed instead of host-name after calling
>> `dired-other-frame' - just not at the initial one.
> I don't understand what you're trying to say.  Why are emacs-version and
> dired-other-frame relevant?


emacs-version is the info, which I want to see at top.


dired-other-frame was just an example of a command, which displayed it 
according to my setting. Commonly, the host-name is shown at this place.

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bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> emacs-version is the info, which I want to see at top.
>
> dired-other-frame was just an example of a command, which displayed it
> according to my setting. Commonly, the host-name is shown at this
> place.

What "top" are you referring to? Is it the title bar of an iconified
window?  (I don't believe XFCE has such a thing)

bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Andreas Röhler]

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Am 09.06.22 um 13:34 schrieb Po Lu:
> Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>  writes:
>
>> emacs-version is the info, which I want to see at top.
>>
>> dired-other-frame was just an example of a command, which displayed it
>> according to my setting. Commonly, the host-name is shown at this
>> place.
> What "top" are you referring to? Is it the title bar of an iconified
> window?  (I don't believe XFCE has such a thing)


It's about the display of icon-title-format's content. Which is shown on 
top of Emacs as emacs@foo for example. Where foo is the hostname here.

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bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> It's about the display of icon-title-format's content. Which is shown
> on top of Emacs as emacs@foo for example. Where foo is the hostname
> here.

`icon-title-format' is only displayed when the frame is iconified.  Is
your frame iconified?  And was any title explicitly specified for that
frame?

bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Andreas Röhler]

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Am 09.06.22 um 15:24 schrieb Po Lu:
> Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>  writes:
>
>> It's about the display of icon-title-format's content. Which is shown
>> on top of Emacs as emacs@foo for example. Where foo is the hostname
>> here.
> `icon-title-format' is only displayed when the frame is iconified.  Is
> your frame iconified?  And was any title explicitly specified for that
> frame?


I'll attach a screenhot when starting from emacs -Q, just printing the 
emacs-version in the scratch buffer.

Please see at the center top displayed "*scratch* - GNU Emacs at affe"

The latest word is taken from the hostname. Want to replace this by the 
Emacs versions number.

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bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> Please see at the center top displayed "*scratch* - GNU Emacs at affe"
>
> The latest word is taken from the hostname. Want to replace this by
> the Emacs versions number.

You want `frame-title-format', not `icon-title-format'.

bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Andreas Röhler]

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Am 09.06.22 um 15:49 schrieb Po Lu:
> Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>  writes:
>
>> Please see at the center top displayed "*scratch* - GNU Emacs at affe"
>>
>> The latest word is taken from the hostname. Want to replace this by
>> the Emacs versions number.
> You want `frame-title-format', not `icon-title-format'.


Ah, okay, sorry. And that works nicely:

(set 'frame-title-format '(multiple-frames "%b" ("" invocation-name "@" 
emacs-version)))


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bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> Ah, okay, sorry. And that works nicely:
>
> (set 'frame-title-format '(multiple-frames "%b" ("" invocation-name "@" emacs-version)))

I'm closing this bug then.  I also fixed a bug related to
icon-title-format, but it ended up unrelated to your problem.

bug#55850: Feature request: customizabe icon-title-format

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> Don't see how. Tried
>
> (setq icon-title-format '(multiple-frames "%b" ("" invocation-name "@"
> emacs-version)))
>
> with no effect. 

What window manager do you use?  Most of them (in my experience) just
ignore whatever the application specifies here and decides on an icon
name themselves.

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