On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Drew Frank <ajfr...@ics.uci.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:26 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Jun 17, 2011, at 15:32 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Is this behavior intended? Would be it be reasonable to instead create >> >>> windows with a generic name like "R Graphics" prior to updating them with >> >>> the device number and active/inactive status? >> > >> > Yes, no. >> > >> >> Well, "yes, maybe", I'd say. If the WM insists on looking at the title, it >> makes some pragmatic sense for the user to set it to a generic name that the >> WM can recognize. >> >> However, on revisiting this, the obvious fix/workaround is just to set >> >> X11.options(title="R Graphics: Device %d") >> >> and the user can do this in his/her startup files. No need to inflict it on >> every user with any WM. >> >> -- >> Peter Dalgaard >> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School >> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark >> Phone: (+45)38153501 >> Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com >>
Thank you Peter and Brian for your replies. The X11.options workaround is effective, and I'd be happy to make use of it. That said, after reading your replies I agree that the "correct" thing to do would be for the WM to match on WM_CLASS, which is currently not set. I checked out the R-devel trunk and was preparing a patch to set WM_CLASS when I noticed that Brian already committed code to do this in r56008. However, the code is wrapped in an "#ifndef USE_Xt", with the comment "/* For those too idle to make use of Xt (PR#14588) */". When I compile, USE_Xt is set so this code isn't executed and WM_CLASS is never set. Is it supposed to be set somewhere else? Thank you, Drew ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
