Re: OT: setting xterm/rxvt window names

[Andre Berger]

* Michael K O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-09-18 12:11 -0400:
> 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.
> 
> MO

Would


if [ "$PS1" ]; then
    if [ "x`tput kbs`" != "x" ]; then # We can't do this with "dumb" terminal
        stty erase `tput kbs`
    fi
    case $TERM in
        xterm*)
            PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:${PWD}\007"'
            ;;
        *)
            ;;
    esac
fi

do for you if you adjust it?

-Andre

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