Fluxbox and GTK applications = "unnamed"

andrewd18

I'm running Fluxbox right now... the latest version, thanks to ciaranm. But a few of my GTK based apps (Firefox in particular) does not give the name of the program, but "Unnamed" in the taskbar. I'm used to being able to look at my taskbar and see kinda what I've got running... for example, the name of the webpage I've got open in Firefox.

Is there a fix for this, or... ?

~~ Andrew D.
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frenkel · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 1034 Location: .nl

Apewall · Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 248 Location: USA

Firefox is supposed to give you the name of the website you're currently viewing in the "taskbar", I'm not sure what you mean, could you post some other apps.
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frenkel · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 1034 Location: .nl

Some websites don't have their title changed and are made of some evil template, so the title is still set to Unnamed.

andrewd18 · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:30 am Post subject:

Looks to be just Firefox, at this point. I could hae sworn earlier it was more than FF, but hey, I can't bug report what I can't find.

Every site does that to me, including the forums here. Not quite sure what it is... maybe something to do with the fact that Firefox is 32-bit and the rest of my system is AMD64? But if that were the issue, why would OpenOffice-bin work?

I don't know.

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andrewd18 · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:14 am Post subject:

*nudge*
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Apewall · Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 248 Location: USA

Most likely it was a problem with firefox and not your system, i suggest a you unmerge and remerge firefox, make sure to delete your prefs so you know you get a clean slate.
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ptero · Apprentice Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Posts: 164

yeah, i've got a similar problem and i'm also using firefox in fluxbox.
sometimes some sites create a new window named "unnamed" (

) which display contents of the particular site or it's part (a frame?). this parts are not visible in the main firefox window. if i click on something in that "unnamed" window, nothing happens and the focus switches to firefox, where this part is missing.
if i close that "unnamed" window, firefox crashes (or closes without asking for permission, i'm not sure).

2topicstarter: if you decide to clean your profile and the problem disappears, please let me know. i don't want to do it again yet. there's lots of configurations and some saved passwords i forgot :oops:

but if it helps you, i'll try it out. too.

EDIT: oh, crap. i didn't notice the date

but if someone knows what the problem may be, please help. it's kinda difficult to find a solution in google with words "firefox unnamed window bug"...
i don't know if i should be creating a new topic right now...