Window title shows as "broken"

[bakkeby]

Case 1: only some applications are affected

If a window does not have a window title set (as in neither a _NET_WM_NAME nor a XA_WM_NAME property) at the time when the window is first mapped then the window title will be "broken".

This is also the case if a property notification comes through for the window for the above atoms but said property does not exist or is empty.

Note that client rules that filter on the window title won't apply for windows with broken titles (unless the rule checks for "broken" that is).

Case 2: all applications show as broken

Locales may be broken on the system. Startup logs / output may also show the text of "warning: no locale support".

In this case another symptom is that dmenu won't spawn, even if run from the terminal.

Refer to this page for details on how to set up locales:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale#Generating_locales