xtitle & bspwm - title showing as 0x1234567

Question

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 and have opted to use bspwm, which I use on other laptops on other distros.

I have a simple little window which shows me the title of my nodes and allows me to switch to the quickly (for monospace desktops mostly).

On Ubuntu, when I try to us =e xtitle to get the name of a node it gives me the

/usr/bin/bspc query -N -n .window

0x01200002 0x02800029 0x01C0002C 0x03800003 0x04A00459 0x03A00006 0x03C00003 0x01E00003

 xtitle 0x01200002

title = 0x01200002 icon = 0x01200002

Has anyone else seen this before & managed to resolve it. As I say this configuration works for me elsewhere but this is the only time I've tried it on Ubuntu.

Thanks all.

Edit - to add to this, xprop seems to be able to work out the title

WM_NAME(COMPOUND_TEXT) = "Google — Mozilla Firefox" _NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "Google — Mozilla Firefox"

Answer 1

This isn't a solution using xtitle that is still not working for me, however I've achieved the same results using xprop

Sample to get the Window Name for a node

xprop -id "0x054000DF" WM_NAME | cut -d\" -f 2