xtset or xtermset tricks?

[Duane Winner]

Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:41:02PM -0400, Duane Winner wrote:
> 
>>Found a solution!
>>
>>In ~/.bashrc, put this:
>>
>>cd ()
>>{
>>   builtin cd "$@"
>>   /usr/local/bin/xtset %u@%h:`pwd`
>>}
>>
>>
>>
>>-Duane
>>
>>
>>Duane Winner wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks for automating xtset or 
>>>xtermset?
>>>
>>>I use xtset to set the title and icon labels to user at host:path so I can 
>>>keep track of my xterms littered all over my desktop (pretty frequent! :)
>>>
>>>But it sure would be nice to have them updated whenever I 'cd' to 
>>>another directory or 'su' to another user or 'ssh' to another host!
>>>
> 
> 
> 	[ ... ]
> 
> 
> 	I've got a slight problem with having the host/directory/etc on the
> 	title bar. It will help clear my zsh right-prompt, of course.
> 	But how do you set the title bar *back* to the name of the xterm?
> 	(My xterms are titled "Mail", "Net", "Hacking", "Scratch", and so
> 	forth.)  Is there a way of using xtset/xtermset to retrieve the
> 	-n "Name"??

Hm, not sure. I just started with xtset myself this morning when I 
decided I was getting sick of having 10 xterm windows all over my lawn 
with the name 'xterm'. I never gave descriptive labels since I'm most 
often ssh'd into other boxes and am more interested in where I am.

Maybe, depending on how you start each xterm (icon/shortcut), you could 
set a variable name (XTNAME="Mail") for each one, then run:
# xtset `echo $XTNAME`

But now, since I hammered out that little cd() function for .bashrc, I 
found another little problem:

If I su to another user (for instance, "su - root"), the title changes 
as long as the other account has my the function in .bashrc, but when I 
exit, the title still has the old credentials (example: root at mybox:~) 
until I cd somewhere again. Sigh.

Cheers,
Duane


> 
> 	thanks,
> 
> 	gary
> 
>