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Re: Hacking on .Xresources



Thanks -- gives me something to do...

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 7:13 AM <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 10:23:27AM +0100, ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost wrote:
> > 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!
>
> Wait - we disarmed this trap in 2021, so any supported NetBSD releases
> are safe.
>
>         -is


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