Comment 16 for bug 257391

This happens in 11.10 too. Calls to gtk_window_set_title don't update the window title as it should. Instead, a additional window operation is needed (resize, maximize, etc.) to see the updated window title.

How to reproduce it: I'm using the sakura terminal emulator to trigger it. There's an option to set the window title. If you look at the source, it's just a call to gtk_window_set_title with the new string. Nothing changes. Only after resizing, maximixing, etc. the window the title changes.

My hunch is that the compiz window manager is not listening to XPropertyChanged events or is listening to them but not setting the window title properly.