From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 19:14:25 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A5EE2496 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:14:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 70A013B6C for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:14:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (rbn1-216-180-19-29.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.29]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s7KJENkU016567 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:14:23 -0500 Message-ID: <53F4F506.6070003@hiwaay.net> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:20:38 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doug@safeport.com Subject: Re: XFCE oddity .... References: <53F4AF84.4050002@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:14:25 -0000 Interesting .... It does indeed work on the title bar & panel marker, although I can't find most of it in the man page, especially the various control sequences .... On 08/20/14 10:48, doug wrote: > 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 ':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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.