Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!mephisto!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!sicsun!sasun1!brossard From: brossard@sasun1.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Title bar flicker fix for XTerm Keywords: XTerm patch flicker title bar Message-ID: <905@sicsun.epfl.ch> Date: 3 Oct 90 08:20:38 GMT References: <6459@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <28434@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@sicsun.epfl.ch Reply-To: brossard@sasun1.epfl.ch Lines: 17 In article <28434@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) writes: > 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. > Andreas Stolcke But that doesn't work all the time, for example when I rlogin somewhere and then come back, the title is wrong or when I do something like | ( cd newdir ; tar xf - ) then the title is wrong at the end of the command. So it is better to do the change in the prompt. -- Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse brossard@sasun1.epfl.ch