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Re: xterm title bars



on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:00PM -0500, Matt Price (matt.price@utoronto.ca) wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> lists.debian.org seems to be down, so I couldn't search the list
> archives properly; sorry if this has been discussed ad nauseum.
> 
> my .bashrc has the following code in it to set the title of xterms:
> 
>  # If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir 
>     case $TERM in 
>     xterm*) 
>         PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0; ${USER}: ${PWD}\007"' 
>         ;; 
>     *) 
>         ;; 
>     esac
> 
> ---------------------
> 
> I'd like to include other information in the xtitle as well, like,
> for instance, basename of process running in the xterm -- and ideally,
> more complicated stuff like the name of the buffer currently being
> edited in a terminal-bound session of xemacs.  
> 
> ANyone know a way to handle this automatically?  I've come across
> various scripts (usually in csh!) that cna be executed from the
> command line, but no solutions that change the window title
> automatically.  
> 
> Is there any hope?  

Bash Promt HOWTO

    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/

Peace.

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