From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 20 23:42:35 2009 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF8F106564A for <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:42:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (marcuscom-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::1279]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033E78FC0A for <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:42:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5KNhtPP024321; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:43:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906151645370.4899@yokozuna.lan> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906151645370.4899@yokozuna.lan> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Mcgi2R3pnCWoAZHDNiwp" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:42:33 -0400 Message-Id: <1245541353.75526.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: program title in gnome-terminal X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining <freebsd-gnome.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome>, <mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome>, <mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:42:35 -0000 --=-Mcgi2R3pnCWoAZHDNiwp Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 16:50 +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Whenever I run a program in gnome-terminal, it doesn't display the progra= m=20 > name in the title bar automatically (it says "Terminal" only). I always=20 > have to set the title by hand. Is there a way that this can be done=20 > automatically, so that the title says for example "Alpine - Terminal",=20 > 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 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-Mcgi2R3pnCWoAZHDNiwp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAko9c+gACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4dgtwCeKPCJ2IcKM6dQm6aDFVIucvFp GF8AnjV+p9tY+tDjOanUYKfYUfZDQDkt =63sE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Mcgi2R3pnCWoAZHDNiwp--