Package: ncurses-base Version: 5.9-1 Severity: wishlist Hello,
Graphical terminal emulator have a useful specific feature that other do not
have: the window title. But here again, they use different control sequence to
access to it. I think this makes this feature a good candidate for terminfo,
but there exist no capability related to “window title”.
Fortunately, the graphical terminal emulator often miss another feature, the
status line, which has a function very close to the window title. In fact the
window title is perceived as replacing, or implementing a status line for
graphical terminal emulators. Thus, several terminal emulators declared the hs,
tsl and fls capabilities to control the status line: this is the case of
terminator, rxvt-unicode and st, for instance.
So, would it be possible to add hs, tsl, fsl and wsl to the xterm definition?
I think that would be:
hs,
tsl=\E]0;,
fsl=^G,
wsl=-1,
This is useful to write terminal-independant shell configuration that set the
window title. A common use is to add the working directory to the window title,
for instance.
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