xtset or xtermset tricks?

[Duane Winner]

Found a solution!

In ~/.bashrc, put this:

cd ()
{
    builtin cd "$@"
    /usr/local/bin/xtset %u@%h:`pwd`
}



-Duane


Duane Winner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks for automating xtset or 
> xtermset?
> 
> I use xtset to set the title and icon labels to user at host:path so I can 
> keep track of my xterms littered all over my desktop (pretty frequent! :)
> 
> But it sure would be nice to have them updated whenever I 'cd' to 
> another directory or 'su' to another user or 'ssh' to another host!
> 
> I'm sure there's got to be someway to make this a little more seamless 
> then running # xtset %u@%h:`pwd` everytime, but I'm just not good enough 
> with shell programming to know how to do this.
> 
> The closest I came was writing a small bash script that does:
> 
>    for filename in /dev/ttyp*; do
>       /usr/local/bin/xtset %u@%h:`pwd` > "$filename"
>    done
> 
> And thought about cron'ing it (every minute), but the problem is that 
> when I tested this, all my xterms get the same title/icon based on who 
> is running the script and where at the time. No good :(
> (And of course this would be useless to update the titles/icons for 
> xterms that are remote shells (ssh).
> 
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks!
> Duane
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