UHHHHHH, that worked for only the one xterm I ran it in.
What If I want it run on all xterms? Run it in .xinitrc ?
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 8:00 AM Todd Gruhn <tgru...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks -- gives me something to do...
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 7:13 AM <ignat...@cs.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 10:23:27AM +0100, ignat...@cs.uni-bonn.de wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 08:47:22AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 08:09:46AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > > > > No, but you can do that with a small script from the terminal -
> > > > > there's an escape character sequence. I'll post my script later when
> > > > > I have access to it.
> > > >
> > > > Something like:
> > > >
> > > > printf "\x1b]2;you are: ${USER} and here: ${cwd} \x07"
> > > >
> > > > where \x1b is ESC and \x07 is ^G aka BEL
> > > >
> > > > or:
> > > >
> > > > printf "\x1b]2;Hi ${USER} it is %s\x07" "$(date)"
> > >
> > > Yes , only my script useds \033 and \007, not that newfangled hex stuff
> > > ;-)
> > >
> > > Be careful not to send that to wscons terminals, only xterms and
> > > similar, though! The ANSI standard ESC ] introduces much longer
> > > sequences ("Operating System Control") that end in a different
> > > delimiter!
> >
> > Wait - we disarmed this trap in 2021, so any supported NetBSD releases
> > are safe.
> >
> > -is
