Re: Tweeking xterm -title

2024-12-27 Thread Todd Gruhn
/usr/pkg/bin/xterm-geometry 80x46+0+0-title "$(date "+%A - %d - %B - %Y")" HOW do I add '[40m' into the -title arg to make the date printed in black? On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 3:48 PM Robert Elz wrote: > > Date:Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:08:19 -0500 > From:Todd Gruh

Re: Tweeking xterm -title

2024-12-27 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:08:19 -0500 From:Todd Gruhn Message-ID: | "startx -- -- " is always used because that is what I learned around 2005. Weird. I don't think that was ever rational. | Does this matter? Does it change how X starts? No, and no. Unless y

Re: Tweeking xterm -title

2024-12-27 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:15:00 -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: Subject: Re: Tweeking xterm -title > > "startx -- --" fails > > I does not start that xterm. I see 3 xterms instead of 4 xterms. > > When I kill X11 (press CTRL-d), that last xterm often shows up; > then it too gets killed. I think you're goi

Re: Tweeking xterm -title

2024-12-27 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:08:19 -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: Subject: Re: Tweeking xterm -title > > "startx -- -- " is always used because that is what I learned around 2005. > > Does this matter? Does it change how X starts? In this case, i.e. for startx(1), no it doesn't, though it does demonstrate a

Re: Tweeking xterm -title

2024-12-27 Thread Todd Gruhn
"startx -- --" fails I does not start that xterm. I see 3 xterms instead of 4 xterms. When I kill X11 (press CTRL-d), that last xterm often shows up; then it too gets killed. On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 12:08 PM Todd Gruhn wrote: > > "startx -- -- " is always used because that is what I learned ar

Re: Tweeking xterm -title

2024-12-27 Thread Todd Gruhn
"startx -- -- " is always used because that is what I learned around 2005. Does this matter? Does it change how X starts? On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 9:22 PM Greg A. Woods wrote: > > At Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:39:41 -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: > Subject: Tweeking xterm -title > > > > (/usr/pkg/bin/xterm