[MPlayer-users] Movie title in title bar

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 6/13/06, Rickard Närström <rickard.narstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
> tisdag 13 juni 2006 12:54 skrev Albert Haeussler:
> > I did not fully understand Rickard's remark - for non-latin1-characters
> > in file names: where should I use _NET_WM_NAME?
> >
> > Cheers
>
> It a litle more job to get it to work, but you will have support for filenames
> with rare characters. Now pretty much only the english alfabeth, numbers and
> some special characters such as !"#$&/(){[]} etc. work. (a total of 255
> characters)
>
> This is how it is done:
>
> 1. you need to intern a atom with:
> Atom XA_NET_WM_NAME;
> XA_NET_WM_NAME = XInternAtom(mDisplay, "_NET_WM_NAME", True);
>
> 2. you need to check that _NET_WM_NAME is in the _NET_SUPPORT propperty of the
> root-window --- if I remembered right mplayer is geting this property -- it
> is used in full-screen code.
>
> 3. To set the title you use, XmbTextListToTextProperty and XSetTextPropery:
>
> XTextProperty basename_prop;
> XmbTextListToTextProperty(mDisplay, &basename, 1, XUTF8StringStyle,
> &basename_prop);
> XSetTextProperty(mDisplay, vo_window, &basename_prop, XA_NET_WM_NAME);
>
>
>
> And remember to use XStoreName as a backup if _NET_WM_NAME isn't in
> _NET_SUPPORT or if _NET_SUPPORT property is missing to support old WMs.

Great! Please modify the patch I sent and send the updated version!! :)

Guillaume
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