Found this somewhere along the way, I forgot where. Works on my machine. I did notice that the cd command on my machine does meddle with the prompt string and send it to xterm. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
#!/usr/bin/perl # # This is a simple program to change the text in an X-windows title bar. # This used to be a shell script, but that got hosed in an ``update'' # on Linux. It's probably a Good Idea(tm) to do this in perl anyway since # the my program could be vulnerable to somebody putting something really # wierd in as arguments. # print qq(\033]2;@ARGV\007); exit(0) On 10/22/07, Paul McFerrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hum... The PS1 setting. Nope, that's not the problem. > > The root of the settitle() function is NOT the setting of PS1. It's > setting in /etc/profile is commented out. In my local .profile, PS1 is > set to just '$PWD'. I have verified that there are no other hidden > settings of PS1. > > I tried your settitle() function, and the title remains unchanged: > basename of the shell. > > My posting in the archives envolves the use of 'rxvt' only and has > nothing to do with xterm. I always startup 'startxwin.sh' from a > non-rxvt window (e.g. the console window). > > Regardless what shell I'm using, it always seems to get it's basename > into the window. Hum.... > > Does anyone else want to try a stab at this problem? > > Brian Dessent wrote: > > Paul McFerrin wrote: > > > > > >> I can't seem to get xterm to recognize Window Title name changes via the > >> following: > >> > >> echo "\0332;new_title\07\c" > >> > > > > You were just recently posting in the thread where this came up before: > > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-10/threads.html#00188> and > > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-10/msg00202.html>. Specifically, the > > default Cygwin prompt (PS1) contains characters that set the title so > > anything you do that doesn't involve changing PS1 will have no effect -- > > or more precisely, your echo command above does set the title for a few > > milliseconds, until the next prompt overwrites it. (In your rxvt > > example, you aren't starting a login shell and thus /etc/profile isn't > > sourced and PS1 isn't set, which is presumably why it works there.) > > > > Brian > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ > > FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ > FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
