RE: How to add a title to xterm
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 PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of fergus Sent: Wed, December 07, 2005 1:55 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to add a title to xterm I do not use startx: for me, it sets up unnecessary or inconvenient defaults. 1. Start bash then 2. run XWin -nolisten local -multiwindow Enter 3. xterm -display localhost:0.0 -title Columbia Enter works fine for me ... Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: How to add a title to xterm
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 application (writing to
/dev/tty or stdout if its connected, or externally, by writing to
/dev/ttyn [Cygwin] or /dev/pts/n [Linux]).
Bellow is a small script that update the title if it is run on an
interactive xterm (the 2nd is a tty emulator written here).
Ehud
#! /bin/sh -e
# this script sets the TTY title to 1st argument
# --
if [ -t 1 ] ; then # do only if stdout is terminal
TTL=`echo $1 | sed -e s/ [ ]*/ /g` # any length of spaces to 1 space
case $TERM in
xter* ) echo \033]0;$TTL\a\c # write it to xterm window title
;;
npc* ) DTTL=`echo $TTL\c | od -An -tu1 -v | tr \012 | sed -e
s/ [ ]*/;/g`
echo \033[=/${DTTL:1:999};253;t\c# For Mivtach Simon TTY
;;
esac
fi
## set_tty_title ##
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Re: How to add a title to xterm
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 ksh. I could not figure out how
to do it with awk
-Robert
case `echo _$0 | /usr/bin/tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | sed -e 's/^_//'`
in
#
bash | -bash | */bash )
#
echo ...running bash
HOSTNAME=`hostname`; export HOSTNAME # Set a HOSTNAME variable
#
# 29=white,30=black,31=red,32=green,33=yellow, 34=blue,35=magenta,36=cyan
#
# Set a default prompt of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and current_directory
#PS1='\[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ '
#PS1='\[\e]0;$HOSTNAME: $PWD\a\]\[\e[36m\]$PWD\[\e[0m\] '# (in
title) HOST-$PWD ... $PATH
PS1='\[\e]0;$ME: $PWD\a\]$PWD '# (in title) HOST-$PWD ... $PATH
;;
#
ksh* | -ksh* | */ksh* )
#
echo ...running ksh
typeset -l HOSTNAME # Set a HOSTNAME variable
PS1=$(perl -e 'printf\033]0;$ARGV[0]: \$PWD\007\033[29m\$PWD\033[0m\
' $ME)
;;
esac
From: Ehud Karni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to add a title to xterm
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:43:29 +0200
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 application (writing to
/dev/tty or stdout if its connected, or externally, by writing to
/dev/ttyn [Cygwin] or /dev/pts/n [Linux]).
Bellow is a small script that update the title if it is run on an
interactive xterm (the 2nd is a tty emulator written here).
Ehud
#! /bin/sh -e
# this script sets the TTY title to 1st argument
# --
if [ -t 1 ] ; then # do only if stdout is
terminal
TTL=`echo $1 | sed -e s/ [ ]*/ /g` # any length of spaces to 1
space
case $TERM in
xter* ) echo \033]0;$TTL\a\c # write it to xterm window
title
;;
npc* ) DTTL=`echo $TTL\c | od -An -tu1 -v | tr \012 | sed
-e s/ [ ]*/;/g`
echo \033[=/${DTTL:1:999};253;t\c# For Mivtach Simon
TTY
;;
esac
fi
## set_tty_title ##
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Re: How to add a title to xterm
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 -nolisten local -multiwindow Enter 3. xterm -display localhost:0.0 -title Columbia Enter works fine for me ... Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: How to add a title to xterm
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 anything you set the title to will be overwritten the next time a prompt is printed. You need to either modify the prompt so that it doesn't try to set the window title, or change the prompt to include the desired window title. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: How to add a title to xterm
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 columbia The default cygwin prompt contains escape characters that set the window title to contain the CWD. Thus anything you set the title to will be overwritten the next time a prompt is printed. You need to either modify the prompt so that it doesn't try to set the window title, or change the prompt to include the desired window title. Brian __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
