Ah, thanks I had no idea that -nohostintitle existed. I did a lot of searching online first before submitting the question so I should have stumbled across that at some point. As soon as I get back to that machine I'll add the option.
I also appreciate the heuristic tweak. A couple other machines will benefit from it especially where the windows are very narrow. On 2015-04-30 03:58, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 25/04/2015 09:23, AC wrote: >> Is it possible to turn off the automatic hostname that the window >> manager is adding to terminal windows? > > Yes, use the X server option -nohostintitle. > [trim] > > Almost. When -hostintitle is enabled, the WM adds the contents of > WM_CLIENT_MACHINE to the window title, unless it already seems to be there. > > I've tried to tweak this heuristic a bit in X server 1.17.1-3 so that > if WM_CLIENT_MACHINE contains something that looks like a FQDN, it only > looks for the hostname part, not the whole thing. > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
