Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 08:14:12 -0500 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup terminal title Message-ID: <20100206131412.GA14340@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <4B6D62B3.4070702@bsdforen.de> References: <4B6D62B3.4070702@bsdforen.de>
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--sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 01:38:11PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > 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. >=20 > Some digging in the portmaster code showed up an escape sequence: > printf "\033]0;%s\007" "YOUR TEXT GOES HERE" >=20 > 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. It "can", depending - some people object to the control sequence which can retrieve the previous value. I added a push/pop stack for xterm last year which can work around that (transparently). I used that in vile (vi like emacs), and I made a fix for 'screen' which uses it. see http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_251 For other terminals - some have disabled the objectionable feature, some have not. (Some will eventually copy the push/pop feature ;-) --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFLbWsjtIqByHxlDocRAllMAKCJvPAdGMZvVGsokaP8UCUBX8enMQCdHpsF aWeaC2w+uW9n6Dl39oyCveo= =k42X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c--
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