Total Commander

It's a simple wish, to have an extra text (defined by an INI parameter) in TC's title (all instances - i.e. EXTRATITLE = TEST). The text could appear in the title as follows "TC8 - EXTRATITLE - REGISTRATION DATA".

You might ask, why i'm asking for that. How could this be helpful?

I'm using Virtualbox, which lately has introduced a very interesting feature, named "seamless mode". This gives you the ability to integrate your virtual desktop to your host desktop. Actually, it hides the virtual desktop's background but let's the virtual desktop's windows visible. This gives the impression that the apps running in the virtual desktop are actually running on the host! Very cool but as you can imagine, having 2 or more TC instances open in both environments gets pretty confusing after a while, so that's why i'm asking for this wish.

If for some reason this is not acceptable, instead of the configurable EXTRATITLE, the name of the PC could appear. An INI option could exist to turn this feature on/off.

I'm usually set slightly different background color for sandboxed or virtualized TC instances. Also different Windows theme may be helpful too (another color of TC menu line and buttonbar).

2 MVV: I have a common INI file, to use between all of my PCs, so...

Christian, any chance of seeing the PC name in the title bar?

wanderer, have you tried to set another Windows theme in virtual machine? As I wrote, it is a quite useful way to detect virtual applications (by window colors).

Also, you may use any script/tool to set alternative title for TC.

Well, to be honest, i have left the default themes unaltered. I think in the heat of work, it would be more clear to see the PC name than to try and focus on the color of the titlebar or the shape of the window.

i searched for exactly the same feature this week too.

The reason i would like an extra, wincmd.ini defined title is it makes it easier for me to have multiple folders with the same TC version but different config file in these folders.

Workaround is to always check help->about.

An optional string which can be defined in the wincmd.ini shouldn't be too hard to implement

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Could be useful,
Regular Text:
titlepre=FOO
titlepost=BAR

Environment Variable:
titlepre=%COMPUTERNAME%
titlepost=%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%