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Old 09-27-2003, 11:35 AM   #1
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How to set the window title for Eterm dynamically?


I know there is probably a pretty simple answer to this question but I haven't found it yet

When I start xterm the window title is $USER@$HOSTNAME:<CurrentDirectory> and this changes dynamically. How do get Eterm to do the same thing? I found the -T option which will let me set the title but I can't figure out how to make it change dynamically.

Any ideas?

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Mike
 
Old 09-29-2003, 04:37 AM   #2
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Put someting like this in your .bashrc:

case $TERM in

ansi*)


PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}: ${TTIME}:${TTIMEM} :${PWD}\007"'

;;
esac

Except instead of ansi put what ever "echo $TERM" returns in Eterm.
 
Old 09-29-2003, 10:10 PM   #3
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Thanks m0rl0ck! That got me part of the way The title of the Eterm window is set when it first loads. What I was shooting for is how xterm changes it's title as you move through directories or connect to a new host.

I'm not sure that this is even possible in Eterm but I'm hoping I usually have several terminal windows open and connected to different hosts and it can get confusing very quickly when all the window titles are the same

Thanks again though!

Mike
 
Old 09-29-2003, 10:26 PM   #4
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That should have done it. Make sure the PROMPT_COMMAND etc is all on one line no newlines.
 
Old 09-29-2003, 10:33 PM   #5
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Originally posted by m0rl0ck
That should have done it. Make sure the PROMPT_COMMAND etc is all on one line no newlines.
Okay, don't know what I did wrong the first time but, I removed it and pasted it again at it's working now! Must have had a stray char in there somewhere the first time.

You rock dude!

Mike

P.S. Found another way to make it work If you set the terminal name xterm like this "Eterm --term-name xterm" it picks up the xterm settings.

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