Dominic Fandrey wrote: > per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >>> I wish to use the "\033]0;%s\007" sequence in a shell-script to >>> set the title of a terminal. But only if I am able to undo it. >>> >>> My requirement is that this must be done without using anything >>> outside the base system. >> There is an escape sequence which will cause the terminal to echo >> back its current title, but it's a bit tricky to use given only >> base-system tools because the echo ends with, IIRC, \007 rather >> than \n. It may be possible in some shells to temporarily set the >> line-end character to \007. You probably also want to (somehow) >> cover problematic cases like terminals that don't reply to the >> inquiry even though TERMCAP implies that they should. > > That actually doesn't sound tricky at all, remember that the > original sequence to change the title also ends with \007. > Where can I find this magical sequence? > > I've been trying to read: > http://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html > > But the Syntax is really cryptic.
I finally got it: printf "\033[22;0t" This stores the current icon and window titles on a stack. printf "\033[23;0t" This restores them from the stack. It works fine with xterm, has no effect on rxvt-unicode (which I am using), though. That might well be a termcap problem. I've got to look into this. -- 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? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"