xprop: error: No window with name exists

Asked Apr 22 '15 at 10:02

Active Apr 22 '15 at 10:32

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I have a window that I know has this:

WM_NAME property: "user : top – Konsole"

If I run xprop and select the window with the cursor, the output from xprop itself tells me:

WM_NAME(COMPOUND_TEXT) = "user : top – Konsole"

However, when I try to run the xprop command specifying that same name, this is what I get:

user@ThinkpadX200:~$ xprop -name "user : top – Konsole"
xprop: error: No window with name user : top – Konsole exists!

edited Apr 22 '15 at 10:32

Richard

asked Apr 22 '15 at 10:02

malfunctioning

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It is probably running into trouble with the "–" character. – Thomas Dickey Apr 22 '15 at 10:36
Thank you, Thomas. That is the only thing that seems plausible. I'll see if I figure out what the exact problem is. – malfunctioning Apr 22 '15 at 10:57
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Did you find a satisfactory answer to this? I have a similar problem, but with no special characters, just `Todoist`. – tsbertalan Apr 15 '16 at 14:28

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