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From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Title bar flicker fix for XTerm
Keywords: XTerm patch flicker title bar
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Date: 2 Oct 90 23:16:17 GMT
References: <6459@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
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In article <6459@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, sinclair@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Duncan Sinclair) writes:
|> Using tcsh, I set re-set the title of xterm before each shell prompt,
|> so that it states my current working directory.  This ensures that my
|> title is up to date, no matter where I am, or what I'm doing.
|> 
|> But what would really bug me is that the most of the time, the
|> update would not be necessary, and would cause an unsightly flicker
|> of the title bar.

May I suggest a different approach to the same end.  Instead of 
having the tcsh prompt string set the title bar on every command,
alias the `cd ' command so as to set it only when actually changing the
current directory.  (This should work for any shell with something equivalent
to an aliasing mechanism).

-- 
Andreas Stolcke
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