Re: Gnome Terminal Suggestion/Question

[Kevin Atkinson <kevinatk home com>]

James Henstridge wrote:
> 
> The ZvtTerm widget is the terminal emulator inside gnome-terminal.

Thanks.
> 
> If this is echoed to an xterm terminal, it will display the string in the
> title bar.  You could use this in your PS1 to display some information for
> instance.

But is it possible to get it to display the current command in the
foreground if it is not the shell itself?
> 
> Gnome-terminal doesn't support this yet (and it may break binary
> compatibility to add it -- maybe this should go on the list for 1.1).

It does when I put an echo command in PROMPT_COMMAND in bash but not
when I execute it directly.
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Kevin Atkinson
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