Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 13:55:55 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup terminal title Message-ID: <20100206125554.GA2173@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <4B6D62B3.4070702@bsdforen.de> References: <4B6D62B3.4070702@bsdforen.de>
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El día Saturday, February 06, 2010 a las 01:38:11PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey escribió: > I just started to wonder how portmaster changes the window title > of my terminal and why it doesn't change it back when it > terminates. > > Some digging in the portmaster code showed up an escape sequence: > printf "\033]0;%s\007" "YOUR TEXT GOES HERE" > > Unfortunately I am entirely clueless as to how one could backup > the old title string to restore it upon termination. It seems > to me this ought to be a precondition to using this kind of > feature. Play around with xwininfo(1), like: $ xwininfo -tree -root | fgrep xterm which prints the titles for all your XTerm windows. HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Vote NO to EU The Lisbon Treaty: http://www.no-means-no.eu
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