On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:15 AM, SJ Wright wrote: > I'd like my terminal title bar to show my current working directory, the > running process (with a fall-back to the active shell when idle) and the > word "Cygwin." > > I have an old .bashrc file in which I collected code for the middle bit > (running process), but putting the three together and making them work > regardless of $TERM type is a challenge that's more than a little 'beyond my > ken.' Nevertheless, as I think it would look great and be sufficiently > informative at the same time, I'd like to pursue it. > > I haven't given up totally on rxvt: mintty has more than a few shortcomings > imo, but I suspect a large part of that is that I'm not used to using an > xterm variant outside of X or GNOME. Anyway, all of that is for another > email. > > Where it meets at odd angles with this idea, is in that I suspect if I start > with "tweaked" xterm settings that check out in rxvt, the strictly X syntax > will work in mintty. In a sense, by going that route, I'll be 'ahead of the > game' instead of 'trying to catch up.'
I can't quite understand what is holding you up. I use a slightly modified version of the following (an emulation of zsh's preexec for bash): http://hwi.ath.cx/jshtools/preexec.bash It works fine in mintty, xtrem and rxvt (rxvt-20050409-21). -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ L w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
