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Bug 120

Summary: Setting WM_CLASS under X11
Product: SDL Reporter: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Component: videoAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: don't know   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   

Description Sam Lantinga 2006-01-31 09:21:03 UTC 
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:12:03 -0500
From: Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn@letterboxes.org>
Subject: [SDL] Setting WM_CLASS under X11

Most X11 programs set the WM_CLASS hint based on the name of the binary
run, but SDL always seems to set it to SDL_App-- this is troublesome
with some window managers that use this hint to identify individual
programs-- Is there any reason behind the current behavior? If there
isn't, I'd strongly recommend acquiring the executable name and using
that for the class.
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2006-01-31 09:21:41 UTC 
We have the SDL_VIDEO_X11_WMCLASS environment variable, but I agree, on platforms where we can determine the application name, we should use it.
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2006-02-03 02:39:49 UTC 
This is implemented for Linux and (I think) FreeBSD.  Thanks!