Re: xterm-title and gnome-panel disagreement..

[Bert Babington <bert.babington@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:24:25 -0400
"J. Limon" <jlimon@xxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is a Mutt or GNOME issue..
> 
> But, I have my .muttrc file set to change the xterm-title (thusly
> gnome-terminal's title) with..
> 
> set xterm_set_titles=yes
> set xterm_title="Mutt: %m (%n)"
> 
> And it works as expected, Mutt: total messages (new) - but
> gnome-panel simply says "Mail", I've never had an instance where the
> gnome-panel title was different than the xterm title.
> 
> If this is a GNOME issue, I apologize. :)
> 

Short answer - not a mutt issue.

Actually, I don't believe this is strictly a GNOME problem, either.

I'm working on the assumption that you are using mutt on Ubuntu, or
some other Debian system?  And that you are starting mutt from the
GNOME applications menu rather than starting it manually from an open
xterm window?  If not, then feel free to straighten me out and I'll take
another look at this.

Otherwise, I think the issue is probably that the numerous patches that
Debian distros add to the vanilla mutt source are including something
to integrate mutt with the usual WM menu system.  And something in that
menu configuration for mutt includes a setting that gnome-panel is
getting its title from.  Check your system for a mutt.menu or
mutt.desktop file that is installed by the mutt package and see if that
might contain something that appears to be significant.

On the other hand, I note the following in the changelog for the most
recent version of mutt in Ubuntu Intrepid:
* In order to evade a conflict with the sidebar patch, move the set_xterm_*
    prototypes from pager.c to mutt_menu.h. No functional change.

It could be that the noted change introduced an unanticipated bug, but
then I'm not a programmer, so that question is better asked of someone
else.

In any case, I think you'll find that this problem is one most
appropriately taken up with the package maintainer for mutt on your
distro.

jbb