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I am using the Motif Window Manager as my desktop.

Motif allows many settings to be adjusted in ~/.Xdefaults. I have a lot of settings, which are confirmed to work here, such as changing the color.

One setting which I strangely cannot get to work is changing the iconbox's window title. Adding Mwm*useIconBox: True to ~/.Xdefaults allows the iconbox to appear, but it displays the default title "iconbox". According to the manual, there are two settings, Mwm*iconBoxTitle and Mwm*iconBoxName, one of which I believe should allow the title to be changed, but I cannot get either to work.

Preferably, I'd like the iconbox to display the day's date as its title, so that real estate on screen has some use.

How can I get the Mwm*iconBoxTitle option to work?

I've tried many different combinations of commands in the ~.Xdefaults file, such as:

Mwm*iconBoxTitle: my title Mwm*iconBoxTitle(my title) Mwm*iconBoxTitle: "my title" 

I've found sample screenshots of different OSes running MWM confirming that the iconbox window title can be changed. I've also found a few sample ~/.Xdefaults files using these Mwm*iconBoxTitle commands, yet copying this code to my own ~.Xdefaults did not result in any title changes.

How can I change the window title of the Motif Window Manager's iconbox?

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After several random attempts for the title I found the solution (unless in my case the following works)

Use Mwm*title: instead of Mwm*iconBoxTitle:. Maybe it's a bug or the documentation is not updated. Also I'm not sure if Mwm*title can change the title on some windows, I don't think so, because I opened several applications and the title are not affected.

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I tested on Ubuntu (server) and all seems to work correctly. Hopefully this also works for you.

Note: When you change the title in ~/.Xdefaults you have to restart the MWM or if that doesn't work try to log-out and log-in again in your Window Manager.

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