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Fri, 21 Nov 2003

Fri Nov 21 10:16:30 2003 XFree86 titlebar lossage
So this morning I logged in to my machine, and discovered that the X server was showing all X windows under the title "Cygwin/XFree86 X", instead of "emacs@alnilam.ccs.neu.edu" or "alnilam: /home/wand" or whatever.

I couldn't even use "xtitle" (a script I wrote years ago, but which seems to work everywhere) to set the title bar correctly. It rans, but it has no effect.

Since I typically have 8-10 X Windows running at any time, this was a Real Pain (taskbar roulette, anyone?)

Exiting and restarting the X server solved the problem, but I am about at the end of my patience in dealing with XFree86. I used XWin32 from Starwin without problem for several years, and I am close to switching back. If anybody has an alternate suggestion for an X server, I'd like to hear it.

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