Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:10:49 -0400 From: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xtset or xtermset tricks? Message-ID: <41223C19.1050800@att.net> In-Reply-To: <4122351E.7040205@att.net> References: <41222679.7080000@att.net> <4122351E.7040205@att.net>
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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
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