forrest@sybase.com (08/04/89)
A program was posted on comp.os.vms that shows how to change the
labeling of a window and its associated icon in DecWindows. This
program works nicely but it must be run on the processor (and in
the process) that controls the window you want to label.
This is close but not quite what I want. What I'd like is to be
able to change the labeling "on the fly" from a remote host by sending
an escape sequence (from the remote host) that will be interpreted
by the DecWindows Server on my workstation. Is this possible?
I've heard that Vol 3. of the O'Reilly books covers Xterm escape
sequences but I don't have that book and even if I did I'm not sure
if what it says would apply to DecTerm.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks,
Jon Forrest
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415-596-3422echarne@thebeach.nrtc.northrop.com (Eli B. Charne <echarne>) (08/05/89)
In article <5385@sybase.sybase.com> forrest@sybase.com writes: >[...] What I'd like is to be >able to change the labeling "on the fly" from a remote host by sending >an escape sequence (from the remote host) that will be interpreted >by the DecWindows Server on my workstation. Is this possible? Sure is. I have each machine I log into send this sequence followed by the machine name, so that my window always properly displays the name of the machine I am currently logged onto. >Does anyone know how to do this? Just send the sequence: ESC] SOME_STRING (that`s ESCape, close square bracket, a space, then some string" to change the window name to the string. (an xterm window that is.) -Eli ----------- echarne@nrtc.northrop.com echarne@orion.cf.uci.edu echarne@ics.uci.edu zebcharne@uci.BITNET
janssen@holmes (Bill Janssen) (08/06/89)
In article <5385@sybase.sybase.com> forrest@sybase.com writes: >[...] What I'd like is to be >able to change the labeling "on the fly" from a remote host by sending >an escape sequence (from the remote host) that will be interpreted >by the DecWindows Server on my workstation. Is this possible? I don't know about DecWindows, or dxterm, or whatever, but for Andrew typescript and MIT xterm, you can do the following in your .cshrc: if ($?TERM) then if ($?prompt) then set prompt = "! % " set hostname = `hostname` if ($TERM == "sun") then # sunview cshell alias cd 'chdir \!*; echo -n "^[]l$hostname : $cwd^[\"' ; else if ($TERM == "wm") then # Andrew typescript alias cd 'chdir \!*; echo -n "^A$hostname : $cwd^B"' ; else if ($TERM == "vt100") then # really xterm alias cd 'chdir \!*; echo -n "^[]l$hostname : $cwd^["' ; else if ($TERM == "xterm") then # xterm alias cd 'chdir \!*; echo -n "^[]l$hostname : $cwd^["' ; else # not a labelled window alias cd 'chdir \!*; set prompt = "$hostname : $cwd ! % "' ; endif cd . endif endif (NB: Each of the character pairs beginning with ^ (^[, ^B, ^A) is actually a single character that I've editted so it goes through mail properly.) Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen.pa@xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304