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From: graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: changing titles
Message-ID: <1581@riscy.dec.com>
Date: 17 Feb 90 11:48:21 GMT
References: <BANNON.90Feb13134554@betelgeuse.csc.ti.com> <NIERMANN.90Feb11143721@grumpy.csg.uiuc.edu>
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In article <BANNON.90Feb13134554@betelgeuse.csc.ti.com>,
bannon@betelgeuse.csc.ti.com (Tom Bannon) writes:

> In article <NIERMANN.90Feb11143721@grumpy.csg.uiuc.edu>
niermann@grumpy.csg.uiuc.edu (Tom Niermann) writes:
> 
> >   Is there a way to change the name displayed in the title bar from
the command
> >   line ? 
> 
> >   This could be done in sunwindows and was useful for displaying the
current
> >   directory and machine logged into by aliasing rlogin and cd.
> 
> I got this off the net awhile ago (comp.windows.x, from graham@fuel.dec.com 
> (kris graham)) and modified it a bit to suit my tastes.  By aliasing certain 
> commands you can get your current working directory in your xterm
title bars, 
> which I find very nice.  

Here is another example that shows how to customize DECwindows
dxterms (a more powerful terminal emulator than xterm) and xterms,
plus, not losing your titles when you go in and out of rlogin, decnet, 
su, etc...

BTW:This was tested on ULTRIX  systems with .cshrc and X11.

  #
if (! $?0) then
  # we've been run from a login session
  echo running .cshrc
  # my favorite aliases here .....
  #........
  #............
 if ($?TERM) then
    if ($TERM == xterm) then
      stty dec pass8
      echo "initializing xterm"
      setenv HOSTNAME `hostname`
      echo -n "]0;"${HOSTNAME}"::"${cwd}""
      alias title 'echo -n "]0;"\!*"" '
      alias cd 'cd \!*; echo -n "]0;"${HOSTNAME}"::"${cwd}"" '
      alias pushd 'pushd \!*; echo -n "]0;"${HOSTNAME}"::"${cwd}"" '
      alias popd 'popd \!*; echo -n "]0;"${HOSTNAME}"::"${cwd}"" '
      alias rlogin 'echo -n "]0;"\!*"::";/usr/ucb/rlogin \!*; echo -n
"]0;"${HOSTNAME}"::"${cwd}"" '
      alias dlogin 'echo -n "]0;"\!*"::";/usr/bin/dlogin \!*; echo -n
"]0;"${HOSTNAME}"::"${cwd}"" '
    endif
    if ($TERM == 'vt200') then
      stty dec
      echo "initializing DECterm"
      setenv HOSTNAME `hostname`
      /usr/new/wtitle "${HOSTNAME}::${cwd}"
      alias title 'wtitle "${HOSTNAME}::$cwd" `tty`'
      alias cd 'cd \!*; wtitle "${HOSTNAME}::${cwd}" "${HOSTNAME}::${USER}"'
      alias pushd 'pushd \!*; wtitle "${HOSTNAME}::${cwd}"'
      alias popd 'popd \!*; wtitle "${HOSTNAME}::${cwd}"'
      alias rlogin 'wtitle \!*"::";/usr/ucb/rlogin \!*; wtitle
"${HOSTNAME}::${cwd}"'
      alias dlogin 'wtitle \!*"::";/usr/bin/dlogin \!*; wtitle
"${HOSTNAME}::${cwd}"'
      title
    endif
  endif
endif

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Christopher Graham          
Digital Equipment Corp            
Ultrix Resource Center                                             
New York City

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