04-13-2002
An X Window System from scratch
I'm currently using Gnome as my desktop environment (DE) but it's going kind of slow.
My friend gave me the advice to skip the DE and only use a Window Manager. I took his suggestion one step further and decided to try building an X window system from scrath instead.
But what are the components that I need for this? I know a little about xfree but is it just that, and a windowmanager that i need?
What window managers do you recommend (I like to keep things simple, so nothing big)? Any other software recommendation for an X system?
Any ideas and suggestions from someone who has managed to do this is appreciated
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xgeticonname
XGetIconName() XGetIconName()
Name
XGetIconName - get the name to be displayed in an icon.
Synopsis
Status XGetIconName(display, w, icon_name_return)
Display *display;
Window w;
char **icon_name_return;
Arguments
display Specifies a connection to an X server; returned from XOpenDisplay().
w Specifies the ID of the window whose icon name you want to learn.
icon_name_return
Returns a pointer to the name to be displayed in the window's icon. The name is a NULL-terminated string. If the data returned
by the server is in the Latin Portable Character Encoding, then the returned string is in the Host Portable Character Encoding.
Otherwise, the result is implementation-dependent. If a name hasn't been assigned to the window, XGetIconName() sets this argu-
ment to NULL. When finished with it, a client must free the icon name string using XFree().
Returns
Zero on failure, non-zero on success.
Description
XGetIconName() is superseded by XGetWMIconName() in Release 4. XGetIconName() reads the icon name property of a window. This function is
primarily used by window managers to get the name to be written in a window's icon when they need to display that icon. XGetIconName()
returns a non-zero Status if it succeeds, and zero if no icon name has been set for the argument window.
For more information, see Volume One, Chapter 12, Interclient Communication.
Errors
BadWindow
See Also
XFetchName(), XGetClassHint(), XGetIconSizes(), XGetNormalHints(), XGetSizeHints(), XGetTransientForHint(), XGetWMHints(), XGetZoomHints(),
XSetClassHint(), XSetCommand(), XSetIconName(), XSetIconSizes(), XSetNormalHints(), XSetSizeHints(), XSetTransientForHint(), XSetWMHints(),
XSetZoomHints(), XStoreName().
Xlib - Window Manager Hints XGetIconName()