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[Daniel van Vugt <daniel.van.vugt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you mean "Xmir root window"? If so then that's not a bug. That Mir
surface represents the whole X11 desktop. So it's not an app window but
is the X11 root window.

If you run Xmir -rootless you will get per-app window names as the apps
are actually running in different windows. But the way we use Xmir right
now in Unity8 I believe is not -rootless. So it may have any number of
apps visible simultaneously and there is no correct "app name" to
display for the whole desktop, assuming you have a typical window
manager.

That all said, what we might be able to do is somehow deduce at the X
server level what the focussed window title is and switch the X server's
window title to match it. Although for any use case other than a
fullscreen window manager that would be incorrect. But it's
theoretically possible to do such an enhancement as an option for
Unity8.

What would be better still though would be to enhance Unity8 to support
'Xmir -rootless' if not already, and then the window titles will all
look right (as well as dialogs etc).

** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  xapp window should reflect app name rather than "root xmir"

Status in Canonical System Image:
  New
Status in Canonical Pocket Desktop:
  New
Status in puritine package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Launching xapp on ubuntu-pd in windowed mode, results in a window title of "root xmir"
  It should reflect the app name in the container.

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