Changing xterm title.

[Ken Steen]

I have an ncurses based application that changes the xterm title to the
current working directory. I was using printf statements and escape
characters to change the title but if the program is running inside of
the screen program that will not work. I changed the program to use Xlib
calls but I am not sure if I am doing it correctly or not.

This works but I am wondering if there is a better way.

void
change_term_title(char * new_title)
{
Display *dsp = NULL;
Window win = 0;
XTextProperty prop;

XStringListToTextProperty(&new_title, 1, &prop);
dsp = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
win = atol(getenv("WINDOWID");

XSetWMName(dsp, win, &prop);
XFlush(dsp);
XFree(prop.value);
XCloseDisplay(dsp);
}

I have never done any Xlib programming and I don't know how portable this
code is. I realize that the code needs some error checking, but I am
wondering if I am on the right track or if there is a better way of doing
this.

Thanks,
Ken


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[Stephane CHAZELAS]

Ken Steen wrote:

> I have an ncurses based application that changes the xterm title to the
> current working directory. I was using printf statements and escape
> characters to change the title but if the program is running inside of
> the screen program that will not work.

[...]

You can put this in your ~/.screenrc:

termcapinfo xterm 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]0;xterm\007'

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Stéphane