xtset or xtermset tricks?

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

Since you use bash, you can use the variable
PROMPT_COMMAND to execute something,
just before the shell prints out PS1. And then
you can set the xterm's title using something
like this:

echo -ne "\033]0;my xterm\007"

Cheers, NikV

On Tuesday 17 August 2004 20:10, Duane Winner wrote:
> This is a little better:
>
> cd ()
> {
>      # do the actual cd
>      builtin cd "$@"
>
>      # if in homedir, then make path '~', not full path
>      if [ $PWD == $HOME ]; then
>          XTDIR="~"
>      else
>          XTDIR="$PWD"
>      fi
>
>      # set xtset title and icon to user at host:path
>      /usr/local/bin/xtset %u@%h:`echo $XTDIR`
> }
>
> # force an xtset title at shell login:
> cd
>
>
> -Duane
>
> Duane Winner wrote:
> > Found a solution!
> >
> > In ~/.bashrc, put this:
> >
> > cd ()
> > {
> >    builtin cd "$@"
> >    /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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