870107 - Firefox's _NET_WM_NAME ends with a junk \177 character

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Adam Sampson]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20130507 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130507142725

Steps to reproduce:

Opened Firefox 20.0.1 on Linux, built from source, and stared at the window title.


Actual results:

When using the Openbox window manager, the window title has a missing-character box at the end. xprop on Firefox's main window shows the following:

WM_ICON_NAME(STRING) = "Enter A Bug - Nightly"
_NET_WM_ICON_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "Enter A Bug - Nightly\177"
WM_NAME(STRING) = "Enter A Bug - Nightly"
_NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "Enter A Bug - Nightly\177"



Expected results:

Those \177s shouldn't be there.

Fedora has the same bug report, originally against Firefox 5, using their normal branding:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716510

Their patch for it fixes excessive quoting of PRE_RELEASE_SUFFIX in browser/base/Makefile.in, by removing the "" in the empty definition of it:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/firefox.git/tree/firefox-5.0-asciidel.patch

Comment 1

[Adam Sampson]

Having just tested it, I can confirm that Fedora's patch works fine against 20.0.1 (although it's not immediately obvious to me *why*!).

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Manuela, was there a reason this got put in layout?

Comment 3

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

I only put it there because of the junk \177 character problem mentioned. I thought it was the right component. Thank you Boris!

Comment 4

[Kim Moir [:kmoir] ET]

triaging, old bug, no longer relevant