Handle legacy window titles by rendering them not unicode-compatible.

2009-03-11 21:31:54 +01:00
parent 17bcdd8b0f
commit cc2c63b860
5 changed files with 81 additions and 4 deletions
--- a/include/data.h
+++ b/include/data.h
@ -223,6 +223,10 @@ struct Client {

        /* Name (= window title) */
        char *name;
+        /* name_len stores the real string length (glyphs) of the window title if the client uses
+           _NET_WM_NAME. Otherwise, it is set to -1 to indicate that name should be just passed
+           to X as 8-bit string and therefore will not be rendered correctly. This behaviour is
+           to support legacy applications which do not set _NET_WM_NAME */
        int name_len;

        /* fullscreen is pretty obvious */