I have this in my .bashrc:
# this makes the title of the terminal window '[EMAIL PROTECTED]: /present/working/directory/'
# see the Eterm technical docs, "Set X Terminal Parameters"
# 'ESC ] 0 ; string BEL' sets icon name and title to string
if [[ "$TERM" != "linux" ]] ; then
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ${PWD}\007"'
fi
Though it does the same thing, it doesn't use $PS1. Theoretically, any command could generate the string, so you may be able to find a way to make it print out the command that you last executed. I found this in the Eterm documentation, much of which applies to other terms: <http://www.eterm.org/docs/view.php?doc=ref>.
BTW, I did the whole snapshot window list thing. You could probably just dump my config into a file, tweak it a bit, and do a Read on it. I posted it on the FVWM forum here: <http://fvwm.lair.be/viewtopic.php?t=349>.
jpkotta
On Mon, 09 May 2005 15:34:06 -0500, Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This solution is application-specific, but what i do is include the working directory in the xterm titlebar. And then do this separately for other applications in which i want more information, for instance.
.bashrc:
case $TERM in xterm*) TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;xterm:\w\007\]' ;; *) TITLEBAR='' ;; esac PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ "
this sets the prompt to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]:directory and the title to be xterm:directory
It is included in the PS1 variable, that way every time the prompt is printed the title bar is updated.
-Peter
Yang Yang wrote:hi guys:
I use Alt+tab in FVWM to switch between windows. the problem that
bothers me is that there is too little information showing in the
windowlist, for example, all xterm windows just show "xterm". so I do
not know which xterm window is the one I want to go to. it would be
more informative if the list also shows, for example, the working
directory, recent commands in that window, etc. anybody knows how to do this? ( I do not want to use the "instant
snapshot" approach, cuz I'm too lazy to do the config, and it's
probably too slow for my machine .... )
thanks a lot!
Yang
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