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cayenne

@Pesala
for example, on screen 1 I have an app in a window and on screen 2 I have 3 Vivaldi windows.
I'm wasting time switching to the right window because I have to see what's on it because Vivaldi still doesn't support naming windows.

When will this ever happen?
It's been built into Chrome for years. Why is it taking so long to be integrated into Vivaldi?

I don't use Vivaldi for this and other things.

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Pesala

@cayenne There are a lot of feature requests. This one is old and popular, but apparently not easy to implement.

Summary of Feature Requests

Category	Threads
Android	848
Desktop	3,781
Mail, Calendar, and Feeds	644
Automotive	5
Subtotal	5,278
Community	179
Total	5,457

While you wait, try using the Windows Task Bar.

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I certainly won't argue that there are a lot of feature requests, however, the code to implement this already exists in the Vivaldi source code since it's Chromium based.

I know enough C++ to read (aka fumble) through code, but not enough to write anything, otherwise I would give it a go. Hopefully I am on track here and a Vivaldi dev sees this and can check this request off the list easily.

I was using the source for Vivaldi version 6.8.3381 for my detective work.

See the file <vivaldi-source-folder>/chromium/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc, and search it for --window-name. That is the Chromium flag to set the window title; I use it all the time from a rofi script to launch Chrome with different profiles and window names.

I did a little more poking and found a function in <vivaldi-source-folder>/base/vivaldi_browser_window.cc. That function is VivaldiBrowserWindow::GetTitle(), which I believe is getting the page title and then appending the string - Vivaldi and returning the whole string.

Just above that is a function VivaldiBrowserWindow::UpdateTitleBar() that is referencing a function by the name of UpdateWindowTitle(). I believe that is the function that needs to be changed, but that appears quite a few times in the source. I think it's origin is in <vivaldi-source-folder>/chromium/ui/views/bubble/bubble_frame_view.cc, but I could be wrong. Regardless of where it is, to mimic Chromium, it would be a simple if/else. Something like:

# Pseduo code:
if --window-name value != ''
    window title == --window-name value
else
    window title == page title + " - Vivaldi"

Anyway, I'm just trying to be helpful as I would like this feature too!

Thanks!