From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 17:10:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D6216A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:10:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB11D43D49 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:10:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duanewinner@worldnet.att.net) Received: from [10.10.100.91] (unknown[216.113.237.29]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004081717102811300svhs4e> (Authid: duanewinner); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:10:29 +0000 Message-ID: <41223C19.1050800@att.net> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:10:49 -0400 From: Duane Winner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41222679.7080000@att.net> <4122351E.7040205@att.net> In-Reply-To: <4122351E.7040205@att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: xtset or xtermset tricks? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:10:51 -0000 This is a little better: cd () { # do the actual cd builtin cd "$@" # if in homedir, then make path '~', not full path if [ $PWD == $HOME ]; then XTDIR="~" else XTDIR="$PWD" fi # set xtset title and icon to user@host:path /usr/local/bin/xtset %u@%h:`echo $XTDIR` } # force an xtset title at shell login: cd -Duane Duane Winner wrote: > Found a solution! > > In ~/.bashrc, put this: > > cd () > { > builtin cd "$@" > /usr/local/bin/xtset %u@%h:`pwd` > } > > > > -Duane > > > Duane Winner wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks for automating xtset or >> xtermset? >> >> I use xtset to set the title and icon labels to user@host:path so I >> can keep track of my xterms littered all over my desktop (pretty >> frequent! :) >> >> But it sure would be nice to have them updated whenever I 'cd' to >> another directory or 'su' to another user or 'ssh' to another host! >> >> I'm sure there's got to be someway to make this a little more seamless >> then running # xtset %u@%h:`pwd` everytime, but I'm just not good >> enough with shell programming to know how to do this. >> >> The closest I came was writing a small bash script that does: >> >> for filename in /dev/ttyp*; do >> /usr/local/bin/xtset %u@%h:`pwd` > "$filename" >> done >> >> And thought about cron'ing it (every minute), but the problem is that >> when I tested this, all my xterms get the same title/icon based on who >> is running the script and where at the time. No good :( >> (And of course this would be useless to update the titles/icons for >> xterms that are remote shells (ssh). >> >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks! >> Duane >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >