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From: earle@POSEUR.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle - Sun JPL on-site Software Support)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Title bar flicker fix for XTerm
Message-ID: <9010051001.AA02336@poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 5 Oct 90 10:01:04 GMT
Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root)
Organization: The Internet
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>>> 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.
>
>Better call it something besides 'cd', though, like 'xcd'.

Naaaahhhh ... you guys are all wet.  Use tcsh's `cwdcmd' alias:

if ($?HOSTTYPE) then
# set tcsh prompt & other stuff
    if ($?WINDOWID) then
	set prompt="`hostname`:"$shelldepth":%h % "
	set WM_NAME=`xprop -id $WINDOWID WM_CLASS | sed 's/^.*"\(.*\)",.*/\1/g'`
	alias cwdcmd 'echo -n "^[]2;"{$WM_NAME}":$cwd^G"'
# make sure accidental ^D doesn't kill my console xterm!
	xprop -id $WINDOWID WM_COMMAND | egrep '"-C' > /dev/null
	if ($status == 0) then
	    set ignoreeof
	    set watch=(1 any any)
	endif
    else
# put the current directory in prompt if not running in X11 or OpenWindows
	set prompt="`hostname`:"$shelldepth":%h [%/] % "
    endif
...
else
# set csh prompt & other stuff
...
endif

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