a solution for high and dry xterm_title
Tribhuvan
loka at rcn.com
Wed Jan 1 08:29:32 UTC 2003
While happily running mc-4.6.0pre2 on solaris-9-x86 - appreciating the new
xterm_title function, I couldnt help but notice that after I exit from
mc the
xterm title was left high & dry where mc was last performing.
I'm envoking this tiny c-prog from .bashrc to return the xterm_title to
something suitable:
Here's the line in my .bashrc at the end of the 'mc-pwd' function:
if [ "$SESSION_SVR" != "" ]
then echo "$USER@$SESSION_SVR" | xterm_title_command
else
echo "$LOGNAME@$HOSTNAME" | xterm_title_command
fi
and the source for xterm_title_command.c :
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <signal.h>
/* Set text in the xterm title from command line */
void
update_xterm_title (void)
{
char title[50];
scanf("%s",title);
fprintf (stdout, "\33]0;%s\7",title);
fflush (stdout);
}
int main (void)
{
update_xterm_title ();
}
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and, what the hek, here's the full mc .bashrc stuff:
alias m='mc-pwd'
mc-pwd ()
{
MC_CWD_FILE="${TMPDIR-/tmp}/mc-$USER/mc.cwd.$$"
/usr/local/bin/mc -c -P "$MC_CWD_FILE" "@$"
if test -r "$MC_CWD_FILE"; then
MC_CWD="`cat $MC_CWD_FILE`"
if test -n "$MC_CWD" && test -d "$MC_CWD"; then
cd "$MC_CWD"
fi
unset MC_CWD
fi
rm -f "$MC_CWD_FILE"
unset MC_CWD_FILE
if [ "$SESSION_SVR" != "" ]
then echo "$USER@$SESSION_SVR" | xterm_title_command
else
echo "$LOGNAME@$HOSTNAME" | xterm_title_command
fi
}
export -f mc-pwd
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midnight commander is by far the most-used utility on all of my systems
and I'm psyched to see development continued. It's one of the first things
I install on a new system. Installed without a snag on solaris-9-x86 - just
use the new /usr/sfw/ tree for gnu/gnome1 libs which are now part of the
standard solaris distribution - or if you have the gnome-2-beta-3 package
installed, autoconf will find gnome-2 libs in /usr/gnome.
btw, I regularly check gnu/gnome mirrors for updated packages, and the
new mc
was not anywhere to be seen. I found it rather by chance on:
http://www.go.dlr.de/fresh/unix/src/misc/
If there's an mc-devel mailing list I'd like to be on it.
Thanks and I hope this is useful!
Tribhuvan
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