bug#14788: frame-title-format unable to alter frame title

[Mark McKenzie]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Jan Djärv wrote:

> Hello.
>
> 4 jul 2013 kl. 17:31 skrev Mark McKenzie <mark@ssl.co.uk>:
>
> > On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > > > Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 11:41:09 +0100 (BST)
> > > > From: Mark McKenzie <mark@ssl.co.uk>
> > > >
> > > > Until recently I had this line in my .emacs in order to get the file path
> > > > into the title bar of emacs (I work with files with the same name in
> > > > different locations, don't even go there)
> > > >
> > > > (setq frame-title-format "%f")
> > > >
> > > > Last week I upgraded my system and it stopped working.
> > >
> > > Works for me.  But my build is not a GTK build, perhaps this is
> > > specific to GTK?
> > Thanks for checking. I might see if I can find the time to build from source 
> > against an earlier gtk or other x toolkit. After my recent upgrade my instinct 
> > is to wail and moan about Gnome 3 but I'm sure that's just me being irrational. 
> > I'll mail to 14788@debbugs.gnu.org if I discover anything.
>
> It works fine on Gtk 3 on Fedora 18 with Gnome 3.  Can you reproduce the error 
> when starting Emacs with -Q?
>
>         Jan D.
Yes. I reduced my .emacs file to a single line

(setq frame-title-format "%f")

I just get "emacs@" followed by the hostname in the title bar.

If you managed to get it working on the same system specs then I suspect 
it must be something odd in the rest of my system configuration. I'll 
start taking a look