niermann@grumpy.csg.uiuc.edu (Tom Niermann) (02/12/90)
Is there a way to change the name displayed in the title bar from the command line ? This could be done in sunwindows and was useful for displaying the current directory and machine logged into by aliasing rlogin and cd. Thanks Tom niermann@bach.csg.uiuc.edu
samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) (02/12/90)
Yes! Send <Esc>T<Title Text><LF> to the screen -- the <Title Text> can be anything you want, event the output from `pwd`. echo "<Esc>T`pwd`" should do it handily. Sam'l Bassett, Sterling Software @ NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA 94035 Work: (415) 694-4792; Home: (415) 969-2644 samlb@well.sf.ca.us samlb@ames.arc.nasa.gov <Disclaimer> := 'Sterling doesn't _have_ opinions -- much less NASA!'
rcb@ccpv1.ncsu.edu (Randy Buckland) (02/12/90)
The only thing I've found that works in xterm is: <esc>]2;<text>^G That's a control/g on the end. Randy Buckland rcb@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu
jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) (02/13/90)
In article <4869@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) writes: > > Send <Esc>T<Title Text><LF> to the screen -- the <Title Text> can > be anything you want, event the output from `pwd`. > > echo "<Esc>T`pwd`" should do it handily. This doesn't work at all here (twm+xterm); it just puts the `pwd` minus its first two bytes out on the next line, and doesn't alter the title bar. Here's what I use here and on some DECwindows systems at work: switch ( "$TERM" ) # Some terminal-specific stuff. case xterm*: # For xterm, we know how to write to the title bar. alias setttl 'echo "^[]0;"$HOST":"`pwd`"^G"' alias putttl 'echo "^[]0;"\!*"^G"' ... I then use setttl in the alias for cd and rlogin, and putttl when I want to write the title bar from a script. So how many different ways are there to do it, and on which systems? Is there any really portable way? -- John Chambers ...!{harvard,ima,mit-eddie}!minya!jc [Sorry, no clever saying today.]
chuck@Morgan.COM (Chuck Ocheret) (02/14/90)
Here is some Korn Shell code in my .envfile which sets up my prompt
to set the title to hostname followed by cwd; easily converted for
other shells.
PS1="$(hostname) "'${PWD}'
if [[ $(whoami) = root ]]
then PEND='!#'
else PEND='!$'
fi
if [[ ${TERM} = xterm ]]
then PS1="];${PS1}${PEND}"
else PS1="${PS1} ${PEND}"
fi
The only problem with this is that my console window no longer says CONSOLE.
Does anyone know (under SUNOS) how to determine if a window is currently
the console window?
~chuck
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+------------------+ New York, N.Y. 10020 USA +-----------------+bannon@betelgeuse.csc.ti.com (Tom Bannon) (02/14/90)
In article <NIERMANN.90Feb11143721@grumpy.csg.uiuc.edu> niermann@grumpy.csg.uiuc.edu (Tom Niermann) writes: > Is there a way to change the name displayed in the title bar from the command > line ? > This could be done in sunwindows and was useful for displaying the current > directory and machine logged into by aliasing rlogin and cd. I got this off the net awhile ago (comp.windows.x, from graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham)) and modified it a bit to suit my tastes. By aliasing certain commands you can get your current working directory in your xterm title bars, which I find very nice. I have the lines below sitting in my .cshrc. The "^[ is really "ESC[ and the "^G" is "control-G". You can get the current directory string more than one way, see the pwd man page if you are interested. You will get funny results if the machine you are logging into does not have the hostname program, which I use to set the variable HOST; there may be better ways to get the host name than this. With the []2 these escape sequences only affect the title bar on the xterm window, specify []0 if you would like it to affect the icon name as well. BTW, this topic is beginning to look like a candidate for the "Common Questions & Answers" bin. Enjoy, Tom bannon@csc.ti.com Computer Science Center Texas Instruments, Dallas ---------- # Put machine and current directory in xterm title bar setenv HOST `hostname` if ($?DISPLAY) then echo -n "]2;"${HOST}":"`pwd`"" endif # Alias to set the title freely alias title 'echo -n "]2;"\!*"" ' # Alias cd, pushd, popd to update the title bar with dir and host alias cd 'cd \!*; echo -n "]2;"${HOST}":"`pwd`"" ' alias pushd 'pushd \!*; echo -n "]2;"${HOST}":"`pwd`"" ' alias popd 'popd \!*; echo -n "]2;"${HOST}":"`pwd`"" ' alias rlogin 'echo -n "]2;"\!*":";/usr/ucb/rlogin \!*; echo -n "]2;"${HOST}":"`pwd`"" '
keane@ultima.cs.uts.oz (Chris Keane) (02/14/90)
In article <NIERMANN.90Feb11143721@grumpy.csg.uiuc.edu>, niermann@grumpy.csg.uiuc.edu (Tom Niermann) writes: > Is there a way to change the name displayed in the title bar from the command > line ? > sure, echo <ESC>]2;new-window-name<BEL> where of course <ESC> is the escape character and <BEL> rings the bell (normally control-g). I have a cd alias set up like this: alias cd 'cd \!* ; echo ^[]2\;$HOSTNAME\:$cwd^G' which changes my window title to where ever I am, eg zeus:/system/usr/keane strobilatingly yours... Chris. +-------------------------------------------------+ | The ultimate profit-making juke-box: It plays | keane@ultima.cs.uts.oz | Kylie Minogue songs until you put money in it...| Beam me up Scotty. +-------------------------------------------------+ Disclaimer: These are my own opinions, but I'm insane. What's your excuse?
battlewr@BATTLE.ESD.ORNL.GOV (David L. Battle) (02/14/90)
Chris Keane writes: > alias cd 'cd \!* ; echo ^[]2\;$HOSTNAME\:$cwd^G' > > which changes my window title to where ever I am, eg zeus:/system/usr/keane Neat. The only problem is that after you come back from an su, rlogin, telnet, etc. session the title bar isn't updated. I got a bit carried away and wanted to have the user name in the title bar too since I have several user id's under which I do different tasks. Here's what I'm currently using (in my .cshrc): setenv HOSTNAME `hostname` setenv USERNAME `whoami` alias tup 'echo -n ^[]2\;${USERNAME}@${HOSTNAME}:$cwd^G' alias cd 'cd \!* ; tup' alias telnet 'telnet \!* ; tup' alias rlogin 'rlogin \!* ; tup' alias dlogin 'dlogin \!* ; tup' alias su 'su \!* ; tup' tup The "tup" at the end updates the title bar at login. I didn't want to use the $USER variable because, at least under ultrix, when one su's to root, $USER is still the user name you originally logged in under. -David L. Battle battle@battle.esd.ornl.gov
casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom) (02/15/90)
| From: battlewr@BATTLE.ESD.ORNL.GOV (David L. Battle) | | Chris Keane writes: | | > alias cd 'cd \!* ; echo ^[]2\;$HOSTNAME\:$cwd^G' | > | > which changes my window title to where ever I am, eg zeus:/system/usr/keane | | Neat. The only problem is that after you come back from an su, rlogin, | telnet, etc. session the title bar isn't updated. And David's solution is full of special cases. Why don't you just put the window title control string in you prompt and be done with it? That way you leave it to your shell to decide which prompt to display and when to display it. Try something like: alias cd 'cd \!*; setprompt' alias pushd 'pushd \!*; setprompt' alias popd 'popd \!*; setprompt' alias setprompt 'set prompt = "^[]2;$HOSTNAME\:$cwd^G% "' (Actually my setprompt does a lot more than this, but you get the idea.) Casey
chuck@Morgan.COM (Chuck Ocheret) (02/15/90)
> ...And David's solution is full of special cases. Why don't you just put > the window title control string in you prompt and be done with it? ... I recently posted how to set up the ksh prompt to update the window title. However, I have discovered a problem with this that I hope someone can help me with. The size of the prompt string seen by ksh includes the entire escape sequence. Since I include ${CWD} in the title string, the string can get very long. How do I prevent ksh from thinking I only have a few characters positions left on my command line? Ksh starts shifting the line over when it thinks you are out of room. ~chuck -- +------------------+ Chuck Ocheret, Sr. Staff Engineer +-----------------+ | chuck@Morgan.COM | Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. | (212) 703-4474 | | Duty now ... |19th Floor, 1251 Avenue of the Americas| for the future. | +------------------+ New York, N.Y. 10020 USA +-----------------+
graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham) (02/17/90)
In article <BANNON.90Feb13134554@betelgeuse.csc.ti.com>, bannon@betelgeuse.csc.ti.com (Tom Bannon) writes: > In article <NIERMANN.90Feb11143721@grumpy.csg.uiuc.edu> niermann@grumpy.csg.uiuc.edu (Tom Niermann) writes: > > > Is there a way to change the name displayed in the title bar from the command > > line ? > > > This could be done in sunwindows and was useful for displaying the current > > directory and machine logged into by aliasing rlogin and cd. > > I got this off the net awhile ago (comp.windows.x, from graham@fuel.dec.com > (kris graham)) and modified it a bit to suit my tastes. By aliasing certain > commands you can get your current working directory in your xterm title bars, > which I find very nice. Here is another example that shows how to customize DECwindows dxterms (a more powerful terminal emulator than xterm) and xterms, plus, not losing your titles when you go in and out of rlogin, decnet, su, etc... BTW:This was tested on ULTRIX systems with .cshrc and X11. # if (! $?0) then # we've been run from a login session echo running .cshrc # my favorite aliases here ..... #........ #............ if ($?TERM) then if ($TERM == xterm) then stty dec pass8 echo "initializing xterm" setenv HOSTNAME `hostname` echo -n "]0;"${HOSTNAME}"::"${cwd}"" alias title 'echo -n "]0;"\!*"" ' alias cd 'cd \!*; echo -n "]0;"${HOSTNAME}"::"${cwd}"" ' alias pushd 'pushd \!*; echo -n "]0;"${HOSTNAME}"::"${cwd}"" ' alias popd 'popd \!*; echo -n "]0;"${HOSTNAME}"::"${cwd}"" ' alias rlogin 'echo -n "]0;"\!*"::";/usr/ucb/rlogin \!*; echo -n "]0;"${HOSTNAME}"::"${cwd}"" ' alias dlogin 'echo -n "]0;"\!*"::";/usr/bin/dlogin \!*; echo -n "]0;"${HOSTNAME}"::"${cwd}"" ' endif if ($TERM == 'vt200') then stty dec echo "initializing DECterm" setenv HOSTNAME `hostname` /usr/new/wtitle "${HOSTNAME}::${cwd}" alias title 'wtitle "${HOSTNAME}::$cwd" `tty`' alias cd 'cd \!*; wtitle "${HOSTNAME}::${cwd}" "${HOSTNAME}::${USER}"' alias pushd 'pushd \!*; wtitle "${HOSTNAME}::${cwd}"' alias popd 'popd \!*; wtitle "${HOSTNAME}::${cwd}"' alias rlogin 'wtitle \!*"::";/usr/ucb/rlogin \!*; wtitle "${HOSTNAME}::${cwd}"' alias dlogin 'wtitle \!*"::";/usr/bin/dlogin \!*; wtitle "${HOSTNAME}::${cwd}"' title endif endif endif ------------------ Christopher Graham Digital Equipment Corp Ultrix Resource Center New York City Internet: graham@fuel.enet.dec.com UUCP: ...!decwrl!fuel.enet.dec.com!graham