Re: xterm not accepting Window Title name changes

["Jay Abel" <jabel at flex dot com>]

Found this somewhere along the way, I forgot where.  Works on my
machine.  I did notice that the cd command on my machine does meddle
with the prompt string and send it to xterm.  Sorry I can't be more
helpful.

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# This is a simple program to change the text in an X-windows title bar.
# This used to be a shell script, but that got hosed in an ``update''
# on Linux.  It's probably a Good Idea(tm) to do this in perl anyway since
# the my program could be vulnerable to somebody putting something really
# wierd in as arguments.
#
print qq(\033]2;@ARGV\007);
exit(0)


On 10/22/07, Paul McFerrin <pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Hum...  The PS1 setting. Nope, that's not the problem.
>
> The root of the settitle() function is NOT the setting of PS1.  It's
> setting in /etc/profile is commented out.  In my local .profile, PS1 is
> set to just '$PWD'.  I have verified that there are no other hidden
> settings of PS1.
>
> I tried your settitle() function, and the title remains unchanged:
> basename of the shell.
>
> My posting in the archives envolves the use of 'rxvt' only and has
> nothing to do with xterm.  I always startup 'startxwin.sh' from a
> non-rxvt window (e.g. the console window).
>
> Regardless what shell I'm using, it always seems to get it's basename
> into the window.  Hum....
>
> Does anyone else want to try a stab at this problem?
>
> Brian Dessent wrote:
> > Paul McFerrin wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I can't seem to get xterm to recognize Window Title name changes via the
> >> following:
> >>
> >>     echo "\0332;new_title\07\c"
> >>
> >
> > You were just recently posting in the thread where this came up before:
> > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-10/threads.html#00188> and
> > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-10/msg00202.html>.  Specifically, the
> > default Cygwin prompt (PS1) contains characters that set the title so
> > anything you do that doesn't involve changing PS1 will have no effect --
> > or more precisely, your echo command above does set the title for a few
> > milliseconds, until the next prompt overwrites it.   (In your rxvt
> > example, you aren't starting a login shell and thus /etc/profile isn't
> > sourced and PS1 isn't set, which is presumably why it works there.)
> >
> > Brian
> >
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