weird terminal title

bujecas · 09-26-2006, 11:31 AM

Hello,

When I cat some binary file, my terminal title goes weird. How do I put the title back again?

w3bd3vil · 09-26-2006, 11:40 AM

happened with me too once, just exit and open the terminal it should become normal.

soggycornflake · 09-26-2006, 02:19 PM

Code:

echo -en "\e]0;$TITLE_TEXT\007"

Oh, btw, when I googled for "xterm escape sequences", this was the first hit. Wow, all these new-fangled searching-wotchamacallits, what'll they think of next, eh?

timmeke · 09-27-2006, 05:47 AM

Or try a soft/hard reset of your terminal window, via the menu (if it has one).
This is safer than just resetting the title, as your "cat" may have screwed up other terminal settings too.

pwc101 · 09-27-2006, 06:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soggycornflake

Oh, btw, when I googled for "xterm escape sequences"... Wow, all these new-fangled searching-wotchamacallits, what'll they think of next, eh?

In all fairness to the OP, you'd have to know that "xterm escape sequences" was what to search for.

soggycornflake · 09-28-2006, 11:18 AM

Quote:

In all fairness to the OP, you'd have to know that "xterm escape sequences" was what to search for.

Well, OK.

Also:

'reset' (or 'echo -en "\0330c"') will reset the terminal if the character set has been bodged (i.e. it's displaying graphical characters).

'stty sane' will reset terminal settings to, well, sane values.