Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:41:02 -0400 From: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xtset or xtermset tricks? Message-ID: <4122351E.7040205@att.net> In-Reply-To: <41222679.7080000@att.net> References: <41222679.7080000@att.net>
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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
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