[MPlayer-users] Movie title in title bar

[Emmanuel Mayssat]

Monce,

Have a look at xprop and xwininfo.
You should be able to set the title of the windows with those X11 utilities.

Regards,
--
Emmanuel


Slapeta, Monika wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this is quite an old issue, but Sebastian's suggestion is exactly what I'd urgently need;
> I desperately searched for such a functionality in the docu (already two years ago and now again), but found nothing.
>
> Can anybody tell me how to change the text in the title bar from "MPlayer" to some other text?
> Even "MPlayer 1" or "MPlayer 2"  (etc.) would do.
> I have several MPlayers running at same time, showing similar movies, so they are hard to distinguish (but it is important to distinguish them).
> There would be the possibility to distinguish the MPlayer windows by giving them different positions (using the "geometry" option),
> but a distinguishable window title would be much safer and better.
>
> Currently, I am using the Mplayer 1.0rc2-3.3.5 on Linux.
> Sorry, I am probably none of those who are able to download and patch the sources as described previously in this thread.
> Also, the title text I need is not stored within the movie - it can only be passed from outside.
>
> Thanks for any hint!
> Monce
>
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