Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:48:44 -0400 (EDT) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XFCE oddity .... Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408201141510.43414@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <53F4AF84.4050002@hiwaay.net> References: <53F4AF84.4050002@hiwaay.net>
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> .... I am running XFCE under FBSD 9.3, w/ xfwm4 window manager, all box-stock
> XFCE. I use rxvt terminals running tcsh for CLI work, usually have *many*
> open at one time. I have the following tcsh alias set:
>
> cwdcmd 'echo -n "\033]2;${HOST}:\057$cwd\007\033]1;$cwd:t\007"'
>
> Under my old desktop (FC14, Gnome desktop, rxvt terminals, tcsh), this would
> set the title bar of the window to '<hostname>:current directory', and the
> panel marker similarly, worked AOK. It is only partially working under
> FBSD/XFCE, however. Whenever I cd from one dir to another, nothing happens.
> Indeed, most of my terminals just say 'rxvt' in their title bar & panel
> marker. However, if I SSH to another machine, or to my ISP (They give you
> shell account on their server :-) ), the title bar & panel marker are
> correctly updated. What gives here ? The fact that it works sometimes
> indicates that my setting for the alias is OK, but XFCE or FVWM4 isn't
> responding correctly .... Bug ? TIA ....
>
I have been using this since 3.5:
set prompt="%B%{\e]2\;%n@%m %l %~%#^g\e]1\;%n@%m^g\r%}%m\:%~%#%b "
still works. I use a custom /etc/csh.cshrc file so it is window manager
independent. I took a shot at translating this using the man page a couple of
years ago.
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