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Re: xterm not accepting Window Title name changes
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:49:40 -0700
- Subject: Re: xterm not accepting Window Title name changes
- References: <471D72B7.7070604@columbus.rr.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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Paul McFerrin wrote:
> I can't seem to get xterm to recognize Window Title name changes via the
> following:
>
> echo "\0332;new_title\07\c"
You were just recently posting in the thread where this came up before:
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-10/threads.html#00188> and
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-10/msg00202.html>. Specifically, the
default Cygwin prompt (PS1) contains characters that set the title so
anything you do that doesn't involve changing PS1 will have no effect --
or more precisely, your echo command above does set the title for a few
milliseconds, until the next prompt overwrites it. (In your rxvt
example, you aren't starting a login shell and thus /etc/profile isn't
sourced and PS1 isn't set, which is presumably why it works there.)
Brian
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