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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
Subject: Re: XFCE oddity ....
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In-Reply-To: <53F4F506.6070003@hiwaay.net> (William A. Mahaffey, III's message
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Don't top-post, please.

"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> writes:
>
> On 08/20/14 10:48, doug wrote:
>>   set prompt="%B%{\e]2\;%n@%m %l %~%#^g\e]1\;%n@%m^g\r%}%m\:%~%#%b "
>
> 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 ....
>

Most of that would come termcap, no? 
It has nothing to do with the shell directly.