Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 08:15:09 -0500 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup terminal title Message-ID: <20100206131509.GB14340@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20100206125554.GA2173@current.Sisis.de> References: <4B6D62B3.4070702@bsdforen.de> <20100206125554.GA2173@current.Sisis.de>
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--Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 01:55:55PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El d=EDa Saturday, February 06, 2010 a las 01:38:11PM +0100, Dominic Fand= rey escribi=F3: >=20 > > I just started to wonder how portmaster changes the window title > > of my terminal and why it doesn't change it back when it > > terminates. > >=20 > > Some digging in the portmaster code showed up an escape sequence: > > printf "\033]0;%s\007" "YOUR TEXT GOES HERE" > >=20 > > Unfortunately I am entirely clueless as to how one could backup > > the old title string to restore it upon termination. It seems > > to me this ought to be a precondition to using this kind of > > feature. >=20 > Play around with xwininfo(1), like: >=20 > $ xwininfo -tree -root | fgrep xterm >=20 > which prints the titles for all your XTerm windows. iirc, vim does something like this, but it has the potential for being very slow (ymmv). --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFLbWtbtIqByHxlDocRAjyYAKChS3eALb+nAXVtlZUtoeTU0BSjZQCdGCSx LupIJbgqUxq2v6yiNsG8xaE= =uSFu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU--
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