Re: addressable titlebars for Gnome-terminal?

[Matthew Clarke <clamat van maves ca>]

On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 12:54:39PM -0500, Miguel de Icaza expounded thus:

> 
> > the only thing that's keeping me using xterm these days...well, actually
> > mxterm...is the addressable titlebars.  basically, this feature allows one
> > to put a string in the titlebar using a certain escape character sequence.
> > 
> > this is especially handy to me as i have my titlebar show me which machine
> > i'm logged in on and who i'm logged in as.  if you're operating on a log
> > of machines, this is a very nice feature.
> 
> Can you tell us what is the escape sequence you use to do this?

>From the "Xterm Control Sequences" document, from the xterm-5.0 distribution:

[OSC]Ps[;]Pt[ST]
[OSC]Ps[;]Pt[BEL]	Set Text Parameters:

	Ps = 0:	Change Icon Name and Window Title to Pt
	Ps = 1:	Change Icon Name to Pt
	Ps = 2:	Change Window Title to Pt

Legend:
	[OSC]	Operating System Command lead-in:
		either the two-byte sequence 0x1b 0x5d (ESC ])
		or the one-byte sequence 0x9d

	Ps	A single (usually optional) numeric parameter, composed of
		one or more digits.

	[;]	a semi-colon, the one-byte sequence 0x3b

	Pt	A text parameter composed of printable characters.

	[ST]	String Terminator:
		either the two-byte sequence 0x1b 0x5c (ESC \)
		or the one-byte sequence 0x9c

	[BEL]	The ASCII bell (Ctrl-G, also known as 0x07)

Note:
	Set Text Parameters also supports, at least in XTerm 5.0, Ps values
	that change the colour names, the log file name and the font,
	subject to some compile-time options.

> I have CCed Michael Zucchi.  The terminal emulator widget author.
> Michael, I would suggest to catch this escape sequence and emit a
> signal "titlebar_changed" to let any embedding application to do the
> best thing.

Also CCed to Michael Zucchi, although from the work he's done on the widget
already, I suspect he knows all this anyway.  :)

see ya...
Matt.
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