Re: [DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2020-01-28 Thread marc
Hello > I apologize for the time gap, but ill health put me out of > commission for two months. Hope you are recovering well > $ tput tsl ; echo -n hello ; tput fsl > [nothing returns] But does the title bar of your terminal say hello ? regards marc __

Re: [DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2020-01-28 Thread Haines Brown
I apologize for the time gap, but ill health put me out of commission for two months. My aim was to have mlterm behave like xterm and display the current path in its frame. The mltem accepts a value for -T that specifies the title for the mlterm window. In a terminal if I issue the command: $

Re: [DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2019-11-11 Thread marc
Hello > > I am under the impression that some xterminal emulators > > understand a certain escape sequence (maybe tsl ?) which > > update the title bar. > > > > What does > > > > tput hsl > > > > and > > > > tput tsl ; echo -n hello ; tput fsl > > > > do ? > > They have no effect. And

Re: [DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2019-11-11 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 10:44:02PM +0100, marc wrote: > Hello > > I am under the impression that some xterminal emulators > understand a certain escape sequence (maybe tsl ?) which > update the title bar. > > What does > > tput hsl > > and > > tput tsl ; echo -n hello ; tput fsl > > do ?

Re: [DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2019-11-10 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
my shell function "title()" has echo -n "\033]0;$1\007" which seems to do its thing for mlterm as well as xfce4-terminal and xterm, and probably other. Ralph. marc wrote on 11/11/19 8:44 am: Hello I am under the impression that some xterminal emulators understand a certain escape sequ

Re: [DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2019-11-10 Thread marc
Hello I am under the impression that some xterminal emulators understand a certain escape sequence (maybe tsl ?) which update the title bar. What does tput hsl and tput tsl ; echo -n hello ; tput fsl do ? Maybe that escape sequence has been removed from your terminfo entry ? Use infocmp

Re: [DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2019-11-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 03:55:44PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 20:58:03 -0500, Haines wrote in message > <20191110015803.gb27...@engels.histomat.net>: > > > I'm running mltrm as my main terminal under Beowulf. I vaguely recall > > that with xterm the path to the location of t

Re: [DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2019-11-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 20:58:03 -0500, Haines wrote in message <20191110015803.gb27...@engels.histomat.net>: > I'm running mltrm as my main terminal under Beowulf. I vaguely recall > that with xterm the path to the location of the current session of > the terminal was printed along the top of the wi

[DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2019-11-09 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running mltrm as my main terminal under Beowulf. I vaguely recall that with xterm the path to the location of the current session of the terminal was printed along the top of the window frame. At present it simply displays "mlterm". Did some searching and reading of man mlterm, but failed t