Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:38:33 -0400 From: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: xtset or xtermset tricks? Message-ID: <41222679.7080000@att.net>
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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
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