Re: about terminfo and xterm

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, chinlu chinawa wrote:

> Hello Thomas,
>
> I wanted to ask you if there is any function which
> allows me to get rgb compontents out of the original
> terminal's color pair while using terminfo?
>
> I've seen there's one for ncurses, which is
> `color_content', and also (in the same file,

That only works for the data set via init_color(), and isn't going to
help with ANSI colors...

> base/lib_color.c) have seen `default_fg' and
> `default_bg', though I haven't tried to see whether
> they work when not using it (there is a
> NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS clobbering them)
>
> Another question I've willing to ask is about xterm,
> there is a control sequence which allows to set/unset
> a X property. It says this:
>
> Ps = 3  -> Set X property on top-level window. Pt
>           should be in the form "prop=value", or just
>           "prop" to delete the property
>
> Can you put me an example of such a property? I don't
> seem to be able to match it with anything I've read
> within the xlib manual or what I've tested.

That's calling XSetTextProperty() or XDeleteProperty().
google shows me this for instance:

SGI TPL View (XGetIconName)DESCRIPTION The XSetWMIconName convenience 
function calls XSetTextProperty to set the WM_ICON_NAME property. The 
XGetWMIconName convenience function calls ...
techpubs.sgi.com/.../usr/share/ catman/p_man/cat3/X11/XGetIconName.z - 12k 
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