> From these observations an various experiments I thought that if
> I could read the title of the xterm within my .cshrc and use it (the
> title) in an if statement I could then have the cwdcmd changed for that
> specific xterm.
This is more a shell/X problem than an fvwm problem.
I'm not familiar with tcsh, but cwdcmd sounds similar to the precmd() function
in Z Shell. Mine looks like this:
precmd () {
print -Pn "^[]0;${XTERMNAME}%M %l %5.^G"
}
This yields a string in the titlebars and icons of my xterms that looks like
"belldandy p1 ~" (hostname, tty, current directory).
The XTERMNAME variable is the trick here. Normally it's unset. For my console
xterm (I have a setup like Jon's for session control), I use this in my
.xsession:
XTERMNAME="CONSOLE: " xterm +ut -C -fn 5x8
Then my titlebar looks like "CONSOLE: belldandy p1 ~". Since I set the
variable right before I run the xterm, it doesn't get propagated to subshells.
I can also use it for other kinds of xterms, if needed.
I don't know how you'd do this in tcsh. The % macros used in zsh's print
command won't be the same, but the use of XTERMNAME should be similar.
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Received on Tue Jun 18 1996 - 15:57:34 BST