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Article #2026Re: Set title of emacs window under X ???
From: Hamish Macdonald
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 13:09
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 13:09
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>>>>> On 25 Jun 91 04:20:58 GMT, >>>>> In message <JC.91Jun25002058@raven.bu.edu>, >>>>> jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) wrote: James> I use to do this: James> alias xn "cp $HOME/.Xdefaults $HOME/.Xdefaults-save; James> echo 'emacs*iconName: \!:1' | cat >> $HOME/.Xdefaults; James> xrdb -quiet -load $HOME/.Xdefaults;emacs -rn emacs -wn \!:1 \!:1; James> mv $HOME/.Xdefaults-save $HOME/.Xdefaults&" How about: alias xn "'echo 'emacs*iconName: \!:1' | xrdb -quiet -merge -; emacs -rn emacs -wn \!:1 \!:1 &" This saves you all that mucking about with .Xdefaults files. No sed required, either. Better yet, get Epoch. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- himacdonald@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca watmath!watmsg!himacdonald
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!maytag!maytag!himacdon From: himacdonald@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Hamish Macdonald) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Set title of emacs window under X ??? Message-ID: <1991Jun25.130929.2748@maytag.waterloo.edu> Date: 25 Jun 91 13:09:29 GMT References: <881@llnl.LLNL.GOV> <JC.91Jun25002058@raven.bu.edu> Sender: news@maytag.waterloo.edu (News Owner) Reply-To: himacdonald@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.windows.x Distribution: na Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: jc@raven.bu.edu's message of 25 Jun 91 04: 20:58 GMT