Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:05:28 +0300 (EEST) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xtset or xtermset tricks? Message-ID: <20040818115550.T4343@orion> In-Reply-To: <4122B61B.1050608@att.net> References: <41222679.7080000@att.net> <4122351E.7040205@att.net> <20040817165757.GA88222@thought.org> <4122B61B.1050608@att.net>
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On 2004-08-17 21:51, Duane Winner wrote:
> 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 "$@"
>>> /usr/local/bin/xtset %u@%h:`pwd`
>>> }
>> I've got a slight problem with having the host/directory/etc on the
>> title bar. It will help clear my zsh right-prompt, of course.
> But now, since I hammered out that little cd() function for .bashrc, I
> found another little problem:
>
> If I su to another user (for instance, "su - root"), the title changes
> as long as the other account has my the function in .bashrc, but when
> I exit, the title still has the old credentials (example:
> root@mybox:~) until I cd somewhere again. Sigh.
Don't use cd aliases for showing the current path in your xterm
titlebar. There's a more elegant way involving PROMPT_COMMAND:
bash-2.05b$ export PS1='\$ '
$ export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo ::`pwd`::'
::/home/keramida::
$ cd /etc
::/etc::
$ cd /usr/src
::/usr/src::
$ exit
exit
You can set PROMPT_COMMAND to any command you want, no matter how
complicated. A nice wrapper script around your "usual stuff" for
PROMPT_COMMAND can be called too with:
$ export PROMPT_COMMAND='/home/keramida/bin/promptcmd.sh'
Regarding the current username, host name and directory, you might be
interested in this output too:
$ echo $USER
keramida
$ hostname -s
orion
$ echo $PWD
/home/keramida
$
- Giorgos
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