XSetWMIconName(3X11) XLIB FUNCTIONS XSetWMIconName(3X11)
XSetWMIconName, XGetWMIconName, XSetIconName, XGetIconName -
set or read a window's WM_ICON_NAME property
void XSetWMIconName(Display *display, Window w, XTextPro-
perty *text_prop);
Status XGetWMIconName(Display *display, Window w, XTextPro-
perty *text_prop_return);
int XSetIconName(Display *display, Window w, char
*icon_name);
Status XGetIconName(Display *display, Window w, char
**icon_name_return);
display Specifies the connection to the X server.
icon_name Specifies the icon name, which should be a null-
terminated string.
icon_name_return
Returns the window's icon name, which is a null-
terminated string.
text_prop Specifies the XTextProperty structure to be used.
text_prop_return
Returns the XTextProperty structure.
w Specifies the window.
The XSetWMIconName convenience function calls XSetTextPro-
perty to set the WM_ICON_NAME property.
The XGetWMIconName convenience function calls XGetTextPro-
perty to obtain the WM_ICON_NAME property. It returns a
nonzero status on success; otherwise, it returns a zero
status.
The XSetIconName function sets the name to be displayed in a
window's icon.
XSetIconName can generate BadAlloc and BadWindow errors.
The XGetIconName function returns the name to be displayed
in the specified window's icon. If it succeeds, it returns a
nonzero status; otherwise, if no icon name has been set for
the window, it returns zero. If you never assigned a name to
XFree86 Version 4.5.0 1
XSetWMIconName(3X11) XLIB FUNCTIONS XSetWMIconName(3X11)
the window, XGetIconName sets icon_name_return to NULL. 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. When finished with it, a client
must free the icon name string using XFree.
XGetIconName can generate a BadWindow error.
WM_ICON_NAME
The name to be used in an icon.
BadAlloc The server failed to allocate the requested
resource or server memory.
BadWindow A value for a Window argument does not name a
defined Window.
XAllocClassHint(3X11), XAllocIconSize(3X11),
XAllocSizeHints(3X11), XAllocWMHints(3X11), XFree(3X11),
XSetCommand(3X11), XSetTransientForHint(3X11),
XSetTextProperty(3X11), XSetWMClientMachine(3X11),
XSetWMColormapWindows(3X11), XSetWMName(3X11),
XSetWMProperties(3X11), XSetWMProtocols(3X11),
XStringListToTextProperty(3X11)
Xlib - C Language X Interface
XFree86 Version 4.5.0 2
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