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mortonP
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 Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2024 3:51 pm Post subject: xterm window title not set |
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[Administrator note: this post, and only this post, was originally attached to the solved topic [SOLVED] bash-5.1_p16-r10 issue with window title (ssh). The problems appear unrelated, and the original thread was solved, so I split this out. -Hu]
I'm not sure whether this is the correct thread...
...but I upgraded all packages (finally a free weekend to do the profile switch...) and now setting the title in a simple xterm+bash no longer works with:
echo -ne "\033]0;MYTITLE\007"
I used that extensively to distinguish my xterms :-/
..how to restore the old behaviour?
Thank you! |
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Hu
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2024 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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Your prior location was not in the correct thread. That thread was solved, and discussed a problem where the Gentoo default changed such that ssh sessions would not attempt to set their title. Your problem is that you are attempting to set the title, and it is not working.
Per Guidelines item #4, we need more information. The shown statement works for me here. Please show emerge --pretend --verbose x11-terms/xterm app-shells/bash ; /bin/bash --version ; echo -ne "\033]0;MYTITLE\007" | od -tx1z. Please describe what "no longer works" means: is the title set to the wrong string? An empty string? Is ssh involved? Please test running echo -ne "\033]0;MYTITLE\007" ; sleep 1m, and check whether the window title is correct for the duration of that 1 minute sleep. |
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mortonP
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| Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2024 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| Hu wrote: | Your prior location was not in the correct thread.
Please test running echo -ne "\033]0;MYTITLE\007" ; sleep 1m, and check whether the window title is correct for the duration of that 1 minute sleep.
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I apologize, I searched for "bash, xterm, title" and that thread seemed the best fit.
Having slept now and calmed down...
...great idea with "sleep 1m". The title is set, but reverts then.
Testing this:
bash 5.1_p16-r6 works
bash 5.1_p16-r11 does not
The emerge info on the bash changes got drowned in the full profile rebuild and I was panicking getting a working machine back again.
Addition of "unset PROMPT_COMMAND" at the end of .bashrc reverts to old behaviour and my title setting echo command works as expected.
Only question left: Where to add this "unset" line globally, so this does not have to be added to every user's .bashrc?
Your patience is appreciated, thanks for helping! |
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Hu
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| Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2024 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Since Gentoo's default bash initialization reads and runs files in /etc/bash/bashrc.d, I would add a system-wide override as a new file there. |
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RumpletonBongworth
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| Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2024 10:57 am Post subject: |
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| Hu wrote: | | Since Gentoo's default bash initialization reads and runs files in /etc/bash/bashrc.d, I would add a system-wide override as a new file there. |
For the benefit of anyone reading that might not know, I would add that the file has to have a name that's lexicographically greater than the files beginning with "10-". For example, "99-local.bash". |
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