urxvt terminal title set -- dynamic possibly?[solved]

bladdo · 2008-05-09 03:41:17

Does anyone know how I could set urxvt's title set to say my $PS1, I tried declaring it in my .XDefaults but it literally says echo $PS1 in the title when I do that....

Or also I remember when I used xfce4-terminal I think it showed dynamically what was going on in the term title, is this achievable somehow?

I'm bash btw.

Thanks,
bladdo

Last edited by bladdo (2008-05-11 00:42:27)

iBertus · 2008-05-09 04:25:36

Try putting echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOST}\007" somewhere it might get executed when the terminal is started.

tami · 2008-05-09 07:16:22

I have in my .bashrc:

# Change the window title of X terminals 
    if [[ $TERM =~ "xterm|*rxvt*" ]]; then
    # set -o functrace
    trap 'set_title' DEBUG
    fi

I 'm sorry - I do not remember from where I grabbed it... Anyway - my urxvt window titles are changing dynamically. Don't forget to source your .bashrc after editing it though...
I hope it will help you,
tami

klixon · 2008-05-09 07:56:20

Maybe this section from the bash-prompt howto helps. You should also read the next page if u use screen in you urxvt.

I haven't tried it myself, but i think it should work if you change

case $TERM in
    xterm*)

into

case $TERM in
    xterm*|*rxvt*)

paralax · 2008-05-09 08:16:51

Hi! I have this is my .bashrc and it works great.

PS1='\[\e[0;32m\]\u\[\e[m\] \[\e[1;34m\]\w\[\e[m\] \[\e[1;32m\]\$ \[\e[m\]\[\e[1;37m\] '
# X Terminal titles
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
        PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
        ;;
*)
        ;;
esac

Look at my dotfiles.org folder for more configs: http://dotfiles.org/~paralaX/

Last edited by paralax (2008-05-09 08:22:21)

dolby · 2008-05-09 15:45:18

its already in /etc/profile.bash

Last edited by dolby (2008-05-09 15:45:37)

bladdo · 2008-05-09 18:53:28

Thanks I got it working but I wanna add in another feature.

I'm trying to make it so I can see the tty in the title too, but its not quite working I don't know bash that well so bare with me.

PS1='[\[\033[1;31m\]\u@\h \[\033[1;34m\]$(/usr/bin/tty | /bin/sed -e '\''s:/dev/::'\'')\[\033[0m\]] \[\033[0m\]'
TTY='$(/usr/bin/tty | /bin/sed -e '\''s:/dev/::'\'')\';
export BROWSER='firefox'
export EDITOR=vim
export PS1 
export TTY

# urxvt title
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt-256color)
        PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "${TTY}\\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
        ;;
*)
        ;;
esac

And it errors out and the title is set to default again.

Thanks,
bladdo

bladdo · 2008-05-11 00:41:29

tami wrote:

I have in my .bashrc:
# Change the window title of X terminals 
    if [[ $TERM =~ "xterm|*rxvt*" ]]; then
    # set -o functrace
    trap 'set_title' DEBUG
    fi
I 'm sorry - I do not remember from where I grabbed it... Anyway - my urxvt window titles are changing dynamically. Don't forget to source your .bashrc after editing it though...
I hope it will help you,
tami

At first I settled for it just showing my username/host/pwd in the titlebar. Then I really wanted dynamic, I looked and everywhere I saw online it said it was only achievable through zsh. Tami, your code error'd my term for some reason.

Eventually I found out how to do it

# urxvt title
case $TERM in
        rxvt-256color)
            trap 'echo -ne "\e]0;$USER@$HOSTNAME: $BASH_COMMAND\007"' DEBUG
         ;;
    esac

Will display as :

user@host: command

PWD and TTY can be added in but it looks to stuffed then in my opinion. Just change the rxvt-256color to any term and it should work for you too

-bladdo

tami · 2008-05-11 07:09:50

bladdo wrote:

At first I settled for it just showing my username/host/pwd in the titlebar. Then I really wanted dynamic, I looked and everywhere I saw online it said it was only achievable through zsh. Tami, your code error'd my term for some reason.

After posting and reading the tread I found out that actually, as others pointed out, the function to show dynamically working directory is set system-wide in Arch. Posted by me function from .bashrc ("heritage" from previous installations of other distro) doesn't "spit out" any errors here. (The reason perhaps is that I'm not running rxvt-unicode-256color from AUR - only simple rxvt-unicode from extra - but: this is just a guess! I really did not want to confuse you or your system! ). So - sorry if it errors at your place. I also probably misunderstood what you really needed...

Anyway - I'm glad you found out yourself how to achieve the effect you wanted.

Have a nice day,

tami

robmaloy · 2009-05-06 18:52:36

 
PROMPT_COMMAND='DEFTITLE="${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}"; echo -ne "\033]0;${TITLE:-$DEFTITLE}\007"'

this way i just have to set $TITLE and if i unset it, it goes back to whatever DEFTITLE is

bloom · 2011-10-22 10:52:47

True dynamic titles can be achieved through tmux with the following setting:

set -g set-titles on

bernarcher · 2011-10-22 15:30:48

bloom,
thanks for the info, but this thread is fairly old and thus should not be necrobumped: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

Closing

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