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Re: Hacking on .Xresources



On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 08:47:22AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 08:09:46AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > No, but you can do that with a small script from the terminal - there's an escape character sequence. I'll post my script later when I have access to it.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> 	printf "\x1b]2;you are: ${USER} and here: ${cwd} \x07"
> 
> where \x1b is ESC and \x07 is ^G aka BEL
> 
> or:
> 
> 	 printf "\x1b]2;Hi ${USER} it is %s\x07" "$(date)"

Yes , only my script useds \033 and \007, not that newfangled hex stuff ;-)

Be careful not to send that to wscons terminals, only xterms and
similar, though! The ANSI standard ESC ] introduces much longer
sequences ("Operating System Control") that end in a different
delimiter!

	-is


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