Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:42:33 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: program title in gnome-terminal Message-ID: <1245541353.75526.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906151645370.4899@yokozuna.lan>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 16:50 +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > Hi, > > Whenever I run a program in gnome-terminal, it doesn't display the program > name in the title bar automatically (it says "Terminal" only). I always > have to set the title by hand. Is there a way that this can be done > automatically, so that the title says for example "Alpine - Terminal", > instead of "Terminal" only. There are lot of hits on Google about dynamically settign the gnome-terminal title, but none that I found were specific to tracking the running program. I think this needs to be built into the program being run. For example, I know vim can do this, and does. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAko9c+gACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4dgtwCeKPCJ2IcKM6dQm6aDFVIucvFp GF8AnjV+p9tY+tDjOanUYKfYUfZDQDkt =63sE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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