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bug#61538: Iconifying a frame changes its title
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#61538: Iconifying a frame changes its title |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:51:38 +0200 |
> From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 20:36:11 +0100
>
> Hello,
>
> For the longest time I used "%b" as frame-title-format. Now that I have
> changed it to something more complex, I noticed that it is not respected
> for iconified frames.
>
> (mapcar (lambda (f) (list (frame-visible-p f) (frame-parameter f 'name) f))
> (frame-list))
>
> ((t "/home/jonas/.config/emacs/custom.el"
> #<frame /home/jonas/.config/emacs/custom.el 0x7d386d8>)
> (icon "init.el" #<frame init.el 0x1a8e850>))
>
> You might be wondering how I even noticed this.
>
> I use a tiling window manager, i3wm. Usually I arrange windows in
> multiple columns, where each column "holds" multiple windows, but
> displays only one of them at a time. At the top of such a column the
> titles of all the window that it holds is displayed, followed by the one
> window that is actually being displayed. So while the other windows are
> not displayed, their title is still displayed. i3wm iconifies the
> windows that are not being displayed.
>
> Unfortunately that means that Emacs changes the visible titles of the
> iconified frames. So, given "%f" as frame-title-format, I see, e.g.:
>
> [init.el ] # title of an iconified window
> [/home/jonas/.config/emacs/custom.el ] # title of the displayed window
> |(custom-set-variables | # the column's displayed window
> | ...) |
>
> instead of
>
> [/home/jonas/.config/emacs/init.el ]
> [/home/jonas/.config/emacs/custom.el ]
> |(custom-set-variables |
> | ...) |
>
> Is there a knob, that I am not aware of, to control this?
> If not, please consider adding one.
Isn't this a duplicate of bug#61496, especially the last part of its
discussion?