On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 04:12:01PM -0500, Bert Babington wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:24:25 -0400 > "J. Limon" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure if this is a Mutt or GNOME issue.. > > > > But, I have my .muttrc file set to change the xterm-title (thusly > > gnome-terminal's title) with.. > > > > set xterm_set_titles=yes > > set xterm_title="Mutt: %m (%n)" > > > > And it works as expected, Mutt: total messages (new) - but > > gnome-panel simply says "Mail", I've never had an instance where the > > gnome-panel title was different than the xterm title. > > > > If this is a GNOME issue, I apologize. :) > > > > Short answer - not a mutt issue. > > Actually, I don't believe this is strictly a GNOME problem, either. > > I'm working on the assumption that you are using mutt on Ubuntu, or > some other Debian system? And that you are starting mutt from the > GNOME applications menu rather than starting it manually from an open > xterm window? If not, then feel free to straighten me out and I'll take > another look at this. > > Otherwise, I think the issue is probably that the numerous patches that > Debian distros add to the vanilla mutt source are including something > to integrate mutt with the usual WM menu system. And something in that > menu configuration for mutt includes a setting that gnome-panel is > getting its title from. Check your system for a mutt.menu or > mutt.desktop file that is installed by the mutt package and see if that > might contain something that appears to be significant. > > On the other hand, I note the following in the changelog for the most > recent version of mutt in Ubuntu Intrepid: > * In order to evade a conflict with the sidebar patch, move the set_xterm_* > prototypes from pager.c to mutt_menu.h. No functional change. > > It could be that the noted change introduced an unanticipated bug, but > then I'm not a programmer, so that question is better asked of someone > else. > > In any case, I think you'll find that this problem is one most > appropriately taken up with the package maintainer for mutt on your > distro. > > jbb
You are right in that I am running it under GNOME in Ubuntu, but I am not launching it from a menu (I don't think Ubuntu even supports that). I am launching gnome-terminal as normal and then starting mutt from that term. I will try compiling mutt from source and see if this clears up the "bug". ;) -- "If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good."
