[Rd] Funny characters in x11 window title (PR#1451)

Warnes, Gregory R gregory_r_warnes@groton.pfizer.com
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:28:40 -0400


Making this change fixes the problem.  Now x11() brings up a window properly
labeled "Device 2 (ACTIVE)".

-Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk [mailto:p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 2:59 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Rd] Funny characters in x11 window title (PR#1451)
> 
> 
> "Warnes, Gregory R" <gregory_r_warnes@groton.pfizer.com> writes:
> 
> > I also get funny characters in the title bar on R 1.4.1 and 
> R 1.5.0_devel
> > (yesterday's version).
> 
> My bet is that it is X-server dependent what happens with bytes past
> the end of a string set with
> 
>     XChangeProperty(display, xd->window, XA_WM_NAME, XA_STRING,
>                     8, PropModeReplace, (unsigned char*)t, 50);
> 
> (in newX11_Activate and newX11_Deactivate, src/modules/X11/devX11.c).
> 
> Could you try and replace the 50 with strlen(t) or maybe strlen(t)+1 ?
> 
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