Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:38:28 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xtset or xtermset tricks? Message-ID: <20040819020828.GJ81574@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <41222679.7080000@att.net> References: <41222679.7080000@att.net>
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On Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 11:38:33 -0400, 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
Here's what I do (in .bashrc):
ssh ()
{
xtset -t $*
xtset -i "%u@%h:%D"
command ssh $*
xtset -t "%u (%T) %h:%D"
xtset -i "%u@%h:%D"
}
cd ()
{
command cd $*
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
xtset -t "%u (%T) %h:%D"
xtset -i "%u@%h:%D"
true
else
false
fi
}
xtset -t "%u (%T) %h:%D"
xtset -i "%u@%h:%D"
The last two lines set the initial heading.
Note also that you can set headings from another window: xtset writes
to its stdout, so this will do what you expect:
xtset "Foo bah baz" >/dev/ttyp5
Greg
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