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From: geg@beep.mlb.semi.harris.com (Greg Garland)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Title bar flicker fix for XTerm
Keywords: XTerm patch flicker title bar
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.011511.2263@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Date: 3 Oct 90 01:15:11 GMT
References: <6459@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <28434@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <28434@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) writes:
|> 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,
|> 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).
|> 

Better call it something besides 'cd', though, like 'xcd'.  I called it 'cd'
originally, but I noticed that when I ran sunview (to use some non-X stuff) 
the escape sequences seem to cause the SunView 'shelltool's to hang.

Greg G.