Re: OT: setting xterm/rxvt window names
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 09:02, Michael K O'Brien wrote:
> Hola~
>
> >-- On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 04:36:35PM +0100, % wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Michael K O'Brien wrote:
> > > Hola~
> > >
> > > About two weeks ago, I found that I could no longer set the window and
> > > icon title of an xterm or rxvt window with the following script:
> > >
> > > echo -n "\033]0;$*\007"
> >
> > Try echo -ne, make sure you haven't got PROMPT_COMMAND set to something
> > that overrides it, and haven't embedded a similar sequence in PS1 either.
>
> Thanks, but the -ne didn't fix it. I don't have PROMPT_COMMAND or PS1 set
> to anything.
>
$* resolves to "the rest of the command line arguments" last I checked. So
you look to be setting the title to nothing. In fact when I run this command
(echo -ne) in an rxvt under blackbox the title becomes "Unnamed".
As to why this changed recently, it appears to have been working improperly up
to now. Without the -e it should not be reading the escape sequences.
Shaleh
blackbox maintainer
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