On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 01:55:55PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Saturday, February 06, 2010 a las 01:38:11PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey > escribió: > > > I just started to wonder how portmaster changes the window title > > of my terminal and why it doesn't change it back when it > > terminates. > > > > Some digging in the portmaster code showed up an escape sequence: > > printf "\033]0;%s\007" "YOUR TEXT GOES HERE" > > > > Unfortunately I am entirely clueless as to how one could backup > > the old title string to restore it upon termination. It seems > > to me this ought to be a precondition to using this kind of > > feature. > > Play around with xwininfo(1), like: > > $ xwininfo -tree -root | fgrep xterm > > which prints the titles for all your XTerm windows.
iirc, vim does something like this, but it has the potential for being very slow (ymmv). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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