Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:51:23 -0400 From: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xtset or xtermset tricks? Message-ID: <4122B61B.1050608@att.net> In-Reply-To: <20040817165757.GA88222@thought.org> References: <41222679.7080000@att.net> <4122351E.7040205@att.net> <20040817165757.GA88222@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote:
> 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"??
Hm, not sure. I just started with xtset myself this morning when I
decided I was getting sick of having 10 xterm windows all over my lawn
with the name 'xterm'. I never gave descriptive labels since I'm most
often ssh'd into other boxes and am more interested in where I am.
Maybe, depending on how you start each xterm (icon/shortcut), you could
set a variable name (XTNAME="Mail") for each one, then run:
# xtset `echo $XTNAME`
But now, since I hammered out that little cd() function for .bashrc, I
found another little problem:
If I su to another user (for instance, "su - root"), the title changes
as long as the other account has my the function in .bashrc, but when I
exit, the title still has the old credentials (example: root@mybox:~)
until I cd somewhere again. Sigh.
Cheers,
Duane
>
> thanks,
>
> gary
>
>
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