XSetWMIconName(3) XLIB FUNCTIONS XSetWMIconName(3)
NAME
XSetWMIconName, XGetWMIconName, XSetIconName, XGetIconName - set or read
a window's WM_ICON_NAME property
SYNTAX
void XSetWMIconName(Display *display, Window w, XTextProperty
*text_prop);
Status XGetWMIconName(Display *display, Window w, XTextProperty
*text_prop_return);
int XSetIconName(Display *display, Window w, _Xconst char *icon_name);
Status XGetIconName(Display *display, Window w, char **icon_name_re-
turn);
ARGUMENTS
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.
DESCRIPTION
The XSetWMIconName convenience function calls XSetTextProperty to set
the WM_ICON_NAME property.
The XGetWMIconName convenience function calls XGetTextProperty to obtain
the WM_ICON_NAME property. It returns a nonzero status on success; oth-
erwise, 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 speci-
fied window's icon. If it succeeds, it returns a nonzero status; other-
wise, if no icon name has been set for the window, it returns zero. If
you never assigned a name to the window, XGetIconName sets icon_name_re-
turn 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.
PROPERTIES
WM_ICON_NAME
The name to be used in an icon.
DIAGNOSTICS
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.
SEE ALSO
XAllocClassHint(3), XAllocIconSize(3), XAllocSizeHints(3), XAl-
locWMHints(3), XFree(3), XSetCommand(3), XSetTransientForHint(3), XSet-
TextProperty(3), XSetWMClientMachine(3), XSetWMColormapWindows(3),
XSetWMName(3), XSetWMProperties(3), XSetWMProtocols(3), XStringListTo-
TextProperty(3)
Xlib - C Language X Interface
X Version 11 libX11 1.8.12 XSetWMIconName(3)
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