On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 12:14:30PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 09:59:12AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > To verify/falsify that, you might run xprop on your xterm window. > > The property you are looking for is called WM_NAME. You can even > > xprop | grep WM_NAME > WM_NAME(STRING) = "schaefer@reliand: /home/schaefer" So xterm is "setting" [1] its title correctly. > > use xprop to /set/ the window property -- this way you can be sure > > xprop -f WM_NAME 8s -set WM_NAME "toto" This is to be expected, after what you found out above. [...] Given that evidence, my guess is that the window manager is somehow botching the title bar dispay. Either it tries to use some non-existent font, or it's writing with the same background and foreground colour or something. Have you tried another "classic" X program? For example xmag or xeyes? This may be a hint -- either your window manager is specifically treating xterm in a special way, or the decorations of all "classic" X programs fail in the same way. Cheers [1] Of course it cannot actually "set" the title. It just can ask politely the window manager to do it. - t
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