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Article #36838Re: changing titles
From: David L. Battle
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 15:15
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 15:15
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Chris Keane writes:
> alias cd 'cd \!* ; echo ^[]2\;$HOSTNAME\:$cwd^G'
>
> which changes my window title to where ever I am, eg zeus:/system/usr/keane
Neat. The only problem is that after you come back from an su, rlogin,
telnet, etc. session the title bar isn't updated.
I got a bit carried away and wanted to have the user name in the
title bar too since I have several user id's under which I do different
tasks.
Here's what I'm currently using (in my .cshrc):
setenv HOSTNAME `hostname`
setenv USERNAME `whoami`
alias tup 'echo -n ^[]2\;${USERNAME}@${HOSTNAME}:$cwd^G'
alias cd 'cd \!* ; tup'
alias telnet 'telnet \!* ; tup'
alias rlogin 'rlogin \!* ; tup'
alias dlogin 'dlogin \!* ; tup'
alias su 'su \!* ; tup'
tup
The "tup" at the end updates the title bar at login.
I didn't want to use the $USER variable because, at least under ultrix, when
one su's to root, $USER is still the user name you originally logged in under.
-David L. Battle
battle@battle.esd.ornl.gov
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