On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:15:42AM -0500, Bert Babington wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:28:21 -0400 > "J. Limon" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > 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". ;) > > > > I had a chance this morning to look at this under an Ubuntu VM (I > usually run Slackware) so I see what you're talking about. The mutt > package does drop a mutt file in /usr/share/menu, so I'm not sure why > it doesn't show up in the main gnome menu, but that's a separate issue. > > Anyway, I was wrong - it doesn't appear to have anything to do with the > Debian configuration, necessarily. The ability to change the terminal > title bar appears to be part of the xtitles patch that is applied to > the Ubuntu mutt package. In addition to the configuration options you > noted in your first email, it also defines an option called > "xterm_icon" with a default value that is more or less "Mail". By > setting this option separately, I was able to change the name that > appears for the mutt window on the panel. > > So add the following to your .muttrc in addition to what you have, and > try it again: > set xterm_icon="Mutt: %m (%n)" > > jbb
You were 110% correct.. someone needs to merge those two values into one. I cannot think of a reason those two values should ever be different. -- "If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good."
