14.1.4 Setting and Reading the WM_NAME Property

Xlib provides convenience functions that you can use to set and read the WM_NAME property with the supplied convenience function, use XSetWMName().

To read a window's XGetWMName().

The following two functions have been superseded by XSetWMName() and XGetWMName(), respectively. You can use these additional convenience functions for window names that are encoded as STRING properties.

To assign a name to a window, use XStoreName().

To get the name of a window, use XFetchName().

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