On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 09:49:54AM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > 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.
Not a termcap problem. A terminal problem rather. This "storing title on a stack" stuff is something very few terminals support. Recent xterms does, but few if any others. Other terminals will at best have sequences for "set title" and "read current title". -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se _______________________________________________ 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"