Monce, Have a look at xprop and xwininfo. You should be able to set the title of the windows with those X11 utilities. Regards, -- Emmanuel Slapeta, Monika wrote: > Hello, > > this is quite an old issue, but Sebastian's suggestion is exactly what I'd urgently need; > I desperately searched for such a functionality in the docu (already two years ago and now again), but found nothing. > > Can anybody tell me how to change the text in the title bar from "MPlayer" to some other text? > Even "MPlayer 1" or "MPlayer 2" (etc.) would do. > I have several MPlayers running at same time, showing similar movies, so they are hard to distinguish (but it is important to distinguish them). > There would be the possibility to distinguish the MPlayer windows by giving them different positions (using the "geometry" option), > but a distinguishable window title would be much safer and better. > > Currently, I am using the Mplayer 1.0rc2-3.3.5 on Linux. > Sorry, I am probably none of those who are able to download and patch the sources as described previously in this thread. > Also, the title text I need is not stored within the movie - it can only be passed from outside. > > Thanks for any hint! > Monce > > > > Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG > Sitz der Gesellschaft ist M?nchen > Registergericht: Amtsgericht M?nchen, HRA 72 460 > > Pers?nlich haftende Gesellschafterin: Krauss-Maffei Wegmann Verwaltungs GmbH > Sitz der Gesellschaft ist M?nchen > Registergericht: Amtsgericht M?nchen, HRB 118952 > Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Dipl.-Ing. Frank Haun (Vorsitzender), Dipl.-Kfm. Stefan Krischik, Dipl.-Ing. J?rgen Weber > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Johannes Schmidt > > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users > >