Re: Gnome Terminal Suggestion/Question

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Sorry about that last message.  I pressed the wrong button.

gnome-terminal currently only knows about the shell process it spawned.
The shell handles which processes are stoped/running/current.  So to get
the desired effect, the shell would have to tell gnome-terminal what to
put in the title bar.

In xterm, there is an escape sequence that you can use to change the title
bar (console MC uses this).  I don't think gnome-terminal recognises this
sequence though.  If you use xterm, or the ZvtTerm widget was extended to
handle this escape sequence, you may be able to get the desired effect by
setting PS1.

James.

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On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

> How difficult would it me for the Gnome Terminal to display the name of
> the current foreground process in the title bar?
> 
> It would be a really useful feature as often I have several terminal
> window open and I have no idea what is what.  Showing the name (and
> possibly the number) of the currently foreground process would allow me
> to tell what terminal is what without having to click on each one.
> 
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> Kevin Atkinson
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> http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/
> 
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