Reported by Kernc, thanks! "This makes a particular program that uses libwnck [1] fail after: Wnck-WARNING **: Property _NET_WM_NAME contained invalid UTF-8 in this code [2] because the returned string contains a '\0' and the documentation for g_utf8_validate() [3] explicitly states that when string length is provided, no nul bytes are allowed." It is not entirely clear it is incorrect, other WM's seem to not NUL terminate it either though.master