RE: How to add a title to xterm

2005-12-07 Thread Soong, SylokeJ
Someone posted a clue on how to make MS Windows Cmd window disappear. I lost that (rather I deleted lots of emails when my quota exceeded). If we chose to start cygwin thro a bash cmd window ... ~ How to make that annoying bash window disappear ~ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: How to add a title to xterm

2005-12-07 Thread Ehud Karni
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 06:54:41 -, fergus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to add a title to xterm? I do not use startx: for me, it sets up unnecessary or inconvenient defaults. You can always set the xterm title by sending it the string: Esc ] 0 ; your title ^G . You can do it from the xterm

Re: How to add a title to xterm

2005-12-07 Thread Robert Body
Here is a script that works in bash or ksh for setting the title based on your current path, by setting up $PS1. I have also seen similar thing done by aliasing cd command I use bash mostly, but for ksh there is need for Perl in my script below to accomplish the passing of ESC characters to

Re: How to add a title to xterm

2005-12-06 Thread fergus
How to add a title to xterm? I start cygwinx by startx. The following commands does not work: xterm -T columbia xterm -title columbia xterm -title columbia I do not use startx: for me, it sets up unnecessary or inconvenient defaults. 1. Start bash then 2. run XWin

Re: How to add a title to xterm

2005-12-05 Thread Brian Dessent
PoWah Wong wrote: How to add a title to xterm? I start cygwinx by startx. The following commands does not work: xterm -T columbia xterm -title columbia xterm -title columbia The default cygwin prompt contains escape characters that set the window title to contain the CWD. Thus

Re: How to add a title to xterm

2005-12-05 Thread PoWah Wong
e.g. I do something like this: PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED] \w\n\$ -- PoWah Wong wrote: How to add a title to xterm? I start cygwinx by startx. The following commands does not work: xterm -T columbia xterm -title columbia xterm -title