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From: sinclair@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Duncan Sinclair)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Title bar flicker fix for XTerm
Keywords: XTerm patch flicker title bar
Message-ID: <6462@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Oct 90 10:07:29 GMT
References: <6459@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <28434@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Computing Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
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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,
>|> 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.

>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).

Show me a way to make it work in this scenario:

Say I have two suns called `midway' and `vanuata'.

I am running an xterm on midway, and so have, say, the title bar:
"midway:/usr/X11/src/local/tvtwm"

In /usr/hosts there are links from midway & vanuata to /usr/ucb/rsh.
This allows me to type `vanuata' to rlogin onto it.

Once I reach vanuata, the title bar becomes:
"vanuata:/users/grad/sinclair"

I run a few commands, then logoff, returning to midway.

In my system I now have the correct title bar, in other systems I don't.

I did use the alias method before, but I'm too much of a perfectionist,
and I just wasn't happy with it.

I could create my own equivalent `/usr/hosts', with a ton of shell
scripts so that the title would be reset automatically, but that would
be too much hassle for such a little thing.

Instead I use tcsh's "precmd" alias, and put a small hack into xterm
which can be useful either way.


            Duncan S.


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