Re: xtset or xtermset tricks?
On 2004-08-17 21:51, Duane Winner wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:41:02PM -0400, Duane Winner wrote:
Found a solution!
In ~/.bashrc, put this:
cd ()
{
builtin cd $@
/usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd`
}
I've got a slight problem with having the host/directory/etc on the
title bar. It will help clear my zsh right-prompt, of course.
But now, since I hammered out that little cd() function for .bashrc, I
found another little problem:
If I su to another user (for instance, su - root), the title changes
as long as the other account has my the function in .bashrc, but when
I exit, the title still has the old credentials (example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~) until I cd somewhere again. Sigh.
Don't use cd aliases for showing the current path in your xterm
titlebar. There's a more elegant way involving PROMPT_COMMAND:
bash-2.05b$ export PS1='\$ '
$ export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo ::`pwd`::'
::/home/keramida::
$ cd /etc
::/etc::
$ cd /usr/src
::/usr/src::
$ exit
exit
You can set PROMPT_COMMAND to any command you want, no matter how
complicated. A nice wrapper script around your usual stuff for
PROMPT_COMMAND can be called too with:
$ export PROMPT_COMMAND='/home/keramida/bin/promptcmd.sh'
Regarding the current username, host name and directory, you might be
interested in this output too:
$ echo $USER
keramida
$ hostname -s
orion
$ echo $PWD
/home/keramida
$
- Giorgos
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Re: xtset or xtermset tricks?
Since you use bash, you can use the variable
PROMPT_COMMAND to execute something,
just before the shell prints out PS1. And then
you can set the xterm's title using something
like this:
echo -ne \033]0;my xterm\007
Cheers, NikV
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 20:10, Duane Winner wrote:
This is a little better:
cd ()
{
# do the actual cd
builtin cd $@
# if in homedir, then make path '~', not full path
if [ $PWD == $HOME ]; then
XTDIR=~
else
XTDIR=$PWD
fi
# set xtset title and icon to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:path
/usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`echo $XTDIR`
}
# force an xtset title at shell login:
cd
-Duane
Duane Winner wrote:
Found a solution!
In ~/.bashrc, put this:
cd ()
{
builtin cd $@
/usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd`
}
-Duane
Duane Winner wrote:
Hello,
Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks for automating xtset or
xtermset?
I use xtset to set the title and icon labels to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:path so I
can keep track of my xterms littered all over my desktop (pretty
frequent! :)
But it sure would be nice to have them updated whenever I 'cd' to
another directory or 'su' to another user or 'ssh' to another host!
I'm sure there's got to be someway to make this a little more seamless
then running # xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd` everytime, but I'm just not good
enough with shell programming to know how to do this.
The closest I came was writing a small bash script that does:
for filename in /dev/ttyp*; do
/usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd` $filename
done
And thought about cron'ing it (every minute), but the problem is that
when I tested this, all my xterms get the same title/icon based on who
is running the script and where at the time. No good :(
(And of course this would be useless to update the titles/icons for
xterms that are remote shells (ssh).
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Duane
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Re: xtset or xtermset tricks?
On Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 11:38:33 -0400, Duane Winner wrote:
Hello,
Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks for automating xtset or
xtermset?
I use xtset to set the title and icon labels to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:path so I can
keep track of my xterms littered all over my desktop (pretty frequent! :)
But it sure would be nice to have them updated whenever I 'cd' to
another directory or 'su' to another user or 'ssh' to another host!
I'm sure there's got to be someway to make this a little more seamless
then running # xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd` everytime, but I'm just not good enough
with shell programming to know how to do this.
The closest I came was writing a small bash script that does:
for filename in /dev/ttyp*; do
/usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd` $filename
done
Here's what I do (in .bashrc):
ssh ()
{
xtset -t $*
xtset -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:%D
command ssh $*
xtset -t %u (%T) %h:%D
xtset -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:%D
}
cd ()
{
command cd $*
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
xtset -t %u (%T) %h:%D
xtset -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:%D
true
else
false
fi
}
xtset -t %u (%T) %h:%D
xtset -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:%D
The last two lines set the initial heading.
Note also that you can set headings from another window: xtset writes
to its stdout, so this will do what you expect:
xtset Foo bah baz /dev/ttyp5
Greg
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xtset or xtermset tricks?
Hello, Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks for automating xtset or xtermset? I use xtset to set the title and icon labels to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:path so I can keep track of my xterms littered all over my desktop (pretty frequent! :) But it sure would be nice to have them updated whenever I 'cd' to another directory or 'su' to another user or 'ssh' to another host! I'm sure there's got to be someway to make this a little more seamless then running # xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd` everytime, but I'm just not good enough with shell programming to know how to do this. The closest I came was writing a small bash script that does: for filename in /dev/ttyp*; do /usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd` $filename done And thought about cron'ing it (every minute), but the problem is that when I tested this, all my xterms get the same title/icon based on who is running the script and where at the time. No good :( (And of course this would be useless to update the titles/icons for xterms that are remote shells (ssh). Any thoughts? Thanks! Duane ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xtset or xtermset tricks?
Found a solution!
In ~/.bashrc, put this:
cd ()
{
builtin cd $@
/usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd`
}
-Duane
Duane Winner wrote:
Hello,
Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks for automating xtset or
xtermset?
I use xtset to set the title and icon labels to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:path so I can
keep track of my xterms littered all over my desktop (pretty frequent! :)
But it sure would be nice to have them updated whenever I 'cd' to
another directory or 'su' to another user or 'ssh' to another host!
I'm sure there's got to be someway to make this a little more seamless
then running # xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd` everytime, but I'm just not good enough
with shell programming to know how to do this.
The closest I came was writing a small bash script that does:
for filename in /dev/ttyp*; do
/usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd` $filename
done
And thought about cron'ing it (every minute), but the problem is that
when I tested this, all my xterms get the same title/icon based on who
is running the script and where at the time. No good :(
(And of course this would be useless to update the titles/icons for
xterms that are remote shells (ssh).
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Duane
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Re: xtset or xtermset tricks?
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:41:02PM -0400, Duane Winner wrote:
Found a solution!
In ~/.bashrc, put this:
cd ()
{
builtin cd $@
/usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd`
}
-Duane
Duane Winner wrote:
Hello,
Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks for automating xtset or
xtermset?
I use xtset to set the title and icon labels to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:path so I can
keep track of my xterms littered all over my desktop (pretty frequent! :)
But it sure would be nice to have them updated whenever I 'cd' to
another directory or 'su' to another user or 'ssh' to another host!
[ ... ]
I've got a slight problem with having the host/directory/etc on the
title bar. It will help clear my zsh right-prompt, of course.
But how do you set the title bar *back* to the name of the xterm?
(My xterms are titled Mail, Net, Hacking, Scratch, and so
forth.) Is there a way of using xtset/xtermset to retrieve the
-n Name??
thanks,
gary
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Re: xtset or xtermset tricks?
This is a little better:
cd ()
{
# do the actual cd
builtin cd $@
# if in homedir, then make path '~', not full path
if [ $PWD == $HOME ]; then
XTDIR=~
else
XTDIR=$PWD
fi
# set xtset title and icon to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:path
/usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`echo $XTDIR`
}
# force an xtset title at shell login:
cd
-Duane
Duane Winner wrote:
Found a solution!
In ~/.bashrc, put this:
cd ()
{
builtin cd $@
/usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd`
}
-Duane
Duane Winner wrote:
Hello,
Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks for automating xtset or
xtermset?
I use xtset to set the title and icon labels to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:path so I
can keep track of my xterms littered all over my desktop (pretty
frequent! :)
But it sure would be nice to have them updated whenever I 'cd' to
another directory or 'su' to another user or 'ssh' to another host!
I'm sure there's got to be someway to make this a little more seamless
then running # xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd` everytime, but I'm just not good
enough with shell programming to know how to do this.
The closest I came was writing a small bash script that does:
for filename in /dev/ttyp*; do
/usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd` $filename
done
And thought about cron'ing it (every minute), but the problem is that
when I tested this, all my xterms get the same title/icon based on who
is running the script and where at the time. No good :(
(And of course this would be useless to update the titles/icons for
xterms that are remote shells (ssh).
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Duane
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Re: xtset or xtermset tricks?
Gary Kline wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:41:02PM -0400, Duane Winner wrote:
Found a solution!
In ~/.bashrc, put this:
cd ()
{
builtin cd $@
/usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd`
}
-Duane
Duane Winner wrote:
Hello,
Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks for automating xtset or
xtermset?
I use xtset to set the title and icon labels to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:path so I can
keep track of my xterms littered all over my desktop (pretty frequent! :)
But it sure would be nice to have them updated whenever I 'cd' to
another directory or 'su' to another user or 'ssh' to another host!
[ ... ]
I've got a slight problem with having the host/directory/etc on the
title bar. It will help clear my zsh right-prompt, of course.
But how do you set the title bar *back* to the name of the xterm?
(My xterms are titled Mail, Net, Hacking, Scratch, and so
forth.) Is there a way of using xtset/xtermset to retrieve the
-n Name??
Hm, not sure. I just started with xtset myself this morning when I
decided I was getting sick of having 10 xterm windows all over my lawn
with the name 'xterm'. I never gave descriptive labels since I'm most
often ssh'd into other boxes and am more interested in where I am.
Maybe, depending on how you start each xterm (icon/shortcut), you could
set a variable name (XTNAME=Mail) for each one, then run:
# xtset `echo $XTNAME`
But now, since I hammered out that little cd() function for .bashrc, I
found another little problem:
If I su to another user (for instance, su - root), the title changes
as long as the other account has my the function in .bashrc, but when I
exit, the title still has the old credentials (example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)
until I cd somewhere again. Sigh.
Cheers,
Duane
thanks,
gary
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Re: xtset or xtermset tricks?
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:51:23PM -0400, Duane Winner wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way of using xtset/xtermset to retrieve the -n Name?? Hm, not sure. I just started with xtset myself this morning when I decided I was getting sick of having 10 xterm windows all over my lawn with the name 'xterm'. I never gave descriptive labels since I'm most often ssh'd into other boxes and am more interested in where I am. Maybe, depending on how you start each xterm (icon/shortcut), you could set a variable name (XTNAME=Mail) for each one, then run: # xtset `echo $XTNAME` Yeah, sure there is some kludgey way of resetting the xterms. Looking at the issue from a hacker's perspective I can't see many options for resetting. Unless you wantedthe names always reset at 04:30 or whatever. Oh-well. But now, since I hammered out that little cd() function for .bashrc, I found another little problem: If I su to another user (for instance, su - root), the title changes as long as the other account has my the function in .bashrc, but when I exit, the title still has the old credentials (example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~) until I cd somewhere again. Sigh. What happns if you omit the - when you su? gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
