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From: zjmw36@gpss36.trc.amoco.com (Joe M. Wade)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Title bar flicker fix for XTerm
Keywords: XTerm patch flicker title bar
Message-ID: <2127@apctrc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 90 13:06:46 GMT
References: <6459@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <28434@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Oct3.011511.2263@mlb.semi.harris.com> <28459@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <28459@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU
(Andreas Stolcke) writes:
|> In article <1990Oct3.011511.2263@mlb.semi.harris.com>,
geg@beep.mlb.semi.harris.com (Greg Garland) writes:
|> |> 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.
|>  
|> 
|> The alias command can easily be made conditional on the terminal type,
|> e.g.
|> 
|> 	if ($term == xterm) alias cd ....
|> 
|> A suntool window has $term == sun, so it won't be affected.
|> 
|> -- 
There's an easier way. I alias cd to do the directory change and call a 
shell script which performs the appropriate actions for both shelltools and
xterms based on whether the WINDOWID variable is set (there are other
things you could check). This way it works for both environments.

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