# Designer Window Title

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-window-title/3146>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 2, 2011, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-window-title/3146 "2011-08-02T09:32:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![gnguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@gnguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gnguyen)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-window-title/3146/1 "2011-08-02T09:32:55Z")

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Hi,

When working with several Designer and project running, it would be great to have the project name along with the Designer program name (in the windows title header). Thus, swapping from one project to another with alt-tab (or cmd-tab for osx) will be easier (it worse if your defaults icons for the running projects are the default one).

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-window-title/3146/2 "2011-08-02T16:18:44Z")

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I must be mis-understanding - doesn’t it do this already?  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/a08415de828bfe580b8da280be2b9f771ee504c6.png)

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**Author:** ![gnguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@gnguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gnguyen)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-window-title/3146/3 "2011-08-02T19:30:38Z")

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look at this below, for example, I’ve 2 Designer opened and one project running.  
Each Designer icons has the same text “Ignition Designer” without any mention of the project opened ; so you have to swap to both to find the one you want. Of course, it is worst when using 3 or more Designer.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/d7b9d9a300853cf3ec5a1fdfdcbb111c7df7e725.png)

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-window-title/3146/4 "2011-08-03T16:39:35Z")

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Ok I see…

It looks like OSX is using the application’s name for that text, not the window title, which probably means that you’re out of luck…

To verify - does the window title itself contain the project name like in my screenshot?

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**Author:** ![gnguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@gnguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gnguyen)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-window-title/3146/5 "2011-08-03T17:04:23Z")

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Hi,

Yes, the window has the project name.

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-window-title/3146/6 "2011-08-03T23:01:16Z")

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I don’t think there’s anything we can do then - OSX is using the application name, which can’t be changed to include the project name.

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**Author:** ![gnguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@gnguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gnguyen)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-window-title/3146/7 "2011-08-04T09:15:18Z")

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☹  
thank you

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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-window-title/3146/8 "2011-08-10T02:20:32Z")

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Would something like [this](http://manytricks.com/witch/) help? ![:scratch:](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/76d1620bec252bfac07050c889ff5a91dc8a9c25.gif ":scratch:")

Honestly, I haven’t played with Mac since System 7-- am I showing my age?

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**Author:** ![gnguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@gnguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gnguyen)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 10:10am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-window-title/3146/9 "2011-08-11T10:10:47Z")

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Thanks Jordan.  
I’ll give it a try, if Lion compatible 😉
