Re: xterm title bars

From: Matt Price (matt.price_at_utoronto.ca)
Date: 11/28/03

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    On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:04:41PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
    > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:21:31PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
    > > I've used this (excellent) howto to set my prompt up nicely, and to
    > > echo things like pwd, time, and username to the xterm title. However,
    > > I would love to add {basename} of the currently active process to the
    > > title...
    >
    > You can't do that in bash, as it doesn't provide any way to get the name of
    > the currently executing process in a fashion that would let you set the
    > title.
    >
    > You can do it if you're willing to switch to zsh as your shell, though,
    > because it has PRECOMMAND (or whatever zsh calls it).
    >
    eerrrr... I don't think Im ready for that. Maybe soon!

    thanks for the info,
    matt 

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