I apologize for the time gap, but ill health put me out of commission for two months.
My aim was to have mlterm behave like xterm and display the current path in its frame. The mltem accepts a value for -T that specifies the title for the mlterm window. In a terminal if I issue the command: $ mlterm -T $PWD I get the current path displayed as I want. If in ~/.mlterm/main I put the line: title = $PWD, the window of mlterm displays $PWD literally rather than current path. Assuming mlterm is a variant of xterm, I should be able to set the window title by placing this stanza into /etc/profile if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" ]; then PS1="\033]2;\u@\h:\w\007bash$ " fi I tried if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" ]; then PS1="$PWD" fi but neither had any effect. There is nothing in .mlterm/msg.log If I launch from a CLI with the command $ mlterm -T $PS1 the window displays: ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ If I launch form CLI with the command: $ mlterm -T $PWD it works as desired. At Arnt Karlsen's suggesttion, I took a look at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterm-Title.html, https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-mlterm, https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#h2-Title-Modes but it did not help. It was suggesed that mlterm might understand the tsl escape sequence. $ tput hsl tput: unknown terminfo capability 'hsl' $ tput tsl ; echo -n hellow ; tput fsl [nothing returned] If I type export TERM=xterm+sl and then do $ tput hsl tput: unknown terminfo capability 'hsl' $ tput tsl ; echo -n hello ; tput fsl [nothing returns] $ infocomp mlterm | grep tsl [nothing returns] $ infocmp xterm+sl | grep tsl dsl=\E]0;\007, fsl=^G, tsl=\E]0;, Haines Brown _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng