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XGetWMName()							  XGetWMName()

Name
  XGetWMName – read a window's XA_WM_NAME property.

Synopsis
  Status XGetWMName(display, w, text_prop_return)
	Display *display;
	Window w;
	XTextProperty *text_prop_return;

Arguments
  display   Specifies	a  connection  to  an  X  server;  returned  from
	    XOpenDisplay().

  w	    Specifies the window.

  text_prop_return
	    Returns the XTextProperty structure. This structure should be
	    freed when no longer needed.

Returns
  Zero on failure, non-zero on success.

Availability
  Release 4 and later.

Description
  XGetWMName()	performs an XGetTextProperty() on the XA_WM_NAME property
  of the specified window.  XGetWMName() supersedes XFetchName().

  XGetWMName() returns non-zero if it succeeds, and zero if the	 property
  has not been set for the argument window.

  For  more information, see Volume One, Chapter 12, Interclient Communi‐
  cation.

Structures
     typedef struct {
	 unsigned char *value;	      /* same as Property routines */
	 Atom encoding;		      /* prop type */
	 int format;		      /* prop data format: 8, 16, or 32 */
	 unsigned long nitems;	      /* number of data items in value */
     } XTextProperty;

See Also
  XGetWMIconName(), XSetWMIconName(), XSetWMName(), XSetWMProperties().

Xlib - Window Manager Hints					  XGetWMName()

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