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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xterm titles
Summary: default xterm titles being the host name?
Message-ID: <9897@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 89 12:59:04 GMT
Reply-To: cwilson@cecil.UUCP (Chan Wilson)
Organization: Network Info Systems Ctr., SRI Intl., Menlo Park, CA.
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I'm setting up default X startup files over here, and I'd like to have
the hostname appear on the title bar of the xterm windows.  Currently,
this is accomplished via a 'xterm -g 80x57+100-5 -title `hostname`' but I
would like to move this into the resource database, like so:

xterm*title	:`hostname`

However, when I try to, xrdb grabs the `hostname` as the title, as
opposed to expanding it. Browsing through the xrdb man page, I notice
that I can toss the file through a preprocessor.  Anything I can toss
it through to expand it?

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Chan Wilson -- cwilson@nisc.sri.com <or> cwilson@nic.ddn.mil
'A computer operator at SRI International'  (X windows hacker)
"Nuts to all that X,Y,Z modem mess.  I'm gonna build me a FTP emulator."
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-- 
--Chan Wilson
	     `and now for something completely different.'
	Flamingo coloured penguins and banana coloured grapes.
              cwilson@nisc.sri.com or cwilson@nic.ddn.mil