Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:55:59 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup terminal title Message-ID: <4B6D74EF.2090106@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <20100206125554.GA2173@current.Sisis.de> References: <4B6D62B3.4070702@bsdforen.de> <20100206125554.GA2173@current.Sisis.de>
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Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Saturday, February 06, 2010 a las 01:38:11PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey escribió: > >> 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. >> >> Some digging in the portmaster code showed up an escape sequence: >> printf "\033]0;%s\007" "YOUR TEXT GOES HERE" >> >> 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. > > Play around with xwininfo(1), like: > > $ xwininfo -tree -root | fgrep xterm > > which prints the titles for all your XTerm windows. Nice, but I need something that works with base system components. Like an escape sequence that causes the terminal to reset its title. Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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