Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:57:57 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xtset or xtermset tricks? Message-ID: <20040817165757.GA88222@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <4122351E.7040205@att.net> References: <41222679.7080000@att.net> <4122351E.7040205@att.net>
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:41:02PM -0400, 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've got a slight problem with having the host/directory/etc on the title bar. It will help clear my zsh right-prompt, of course. But how do you set the title bar *back* to the name of the xterm? (My xterms are titled "Mail", "Net", "Hacking", "Scratch", and so forth.) Is there a way of using xtset/xtermset to retrieve the -n "Name"?? thanks, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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