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Re: two new -multiwindow bugs
- From: keith at keithtyler dot com
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 19:21:09 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: two new -multiwindow bugs
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Andrew Markebo wrote:
> | xterm -T "my title" works for me with XWin-4.2.0-28. This is different
> | functionality, though -- I was talking about a window title that
> | updates automatically to show the current directory.
Try reading this:
http://www.linuxpowered.com/archive/mini/Xterm-Title.html
Also look for a program called "xtitle" (there are actually many different
ones, but they all do the same thing) which can help this.
In tcsh and zsh you can define a function named "precmd" which you can use
for this:
function precmd () {
xtitle $USERNAME at $HOST:$PWD
}
HTH,
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