Re: Gnome Terminal Suggestion/Question

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

I spoke too soon.  I see that gnome-terminal does in fact support xterm
title change escape sequence.  Sorry if I mislead anyone.

James Henstridge.

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On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Brandon S. Allbery wrote:

> In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.990329173234.8204F-100000@quoll.daa.com.au>, James He
> nstridge writes:
> +-----
> | To set the title for the xterm you use the following escape sequence
> | (replacing \xxx with the equivalent character and _string_ with the
> | desired value):
> |   \033]2;_string_\077
> | 
> | 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.
> | 
> | 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).
> +--->8
> 
> Are you sure of that?  I have a gnome-terminal running right now which has
> the same titlebar status display my xterms have, changing dynamically as I do 
> things which have wrappers to update the titlebar.
> 
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