On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 03:55:44PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 20:58:03 -0500, Haines wrote in message > <20191110015803.gb27...@engels.histomat.net>: > > > I'm running mltrm as my main terminal under Beowulf. I vaguely recall > > that with xterm the path to the location of the current session of > > the terminal was printed along the top of the window frame. At > > present it simply displays "mlterm".
In the manual I misunderstood --title=name to specify a title rather than the path. I find the variable $PWD does return the path, and I can start mlterm with the command $ mlterm -T $PWD to get the path displayed in the window frame. However, if I put into ~/.mlterm/main the line: title=$PWD, what then appears in the wndow frame is: "$PWD". Somehow I'm missing the syntax for expanding that variable. > ...which means it should accept xterm tricks from e.g. > https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#how2_title > and: https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html I found no help here. > ..you may want to have your shell set the window (and tabs) title. > Chk your output of 'env ', you may have unset what you want set. My env has PWD=/home/haines, and so it seems $PWD should work. > ..your ~/.mlterm/main config file may have a ... > title=name (-T, --title) > Title name. > > ...entry, which should accept shell strings like $PS1 and $PWD > and ~/.mlterm/msg.log should tell you what works and not. The only content in ~/.mlterm are where I define geometry=80x24. bg_color=linen,fontsize=13, Nothing about accepting shell strings. The msg.log only reports not caring for my choices of font size when I find installed mlgerm. > ..try launch it from e.g. an xterm cli with e.g.: > mlterm -T $PS1 & Yes, Launching it with -T $PWD & does return the current path. > ..googling possible explanations to your findings, may be found in both > https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-mlterm and > https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#h2-Title-Modes Looked at these, but found no help here. > ...or: titleModes (class TitleModes) > Tells xterm whether to accept or return window- and > icon-labels in ISO-8859-1 (the default) or UTF-8. > Either can be encoded in hexadecimal. The default for > this resource is “0”. > > Each bit (bit “0” is 1, bit “1” is 2, etc.) corresponds > to one of the parameters set by the title modes control > sequence: > > 0 Set window/icon labels using hexadecimal > > 1 Query window/icon labels using hexadecimal > > 2 Set window/icon labels using UTF-8 (overrides > utf8Title resource). > > 3 Query window/icon labels using UTF-8 > > ...from man xterm, if you threw out everything ISO-8859-* and if > mlterm still needs such support, > http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/mlterm.1.html advices: > -8, --88591(=bool) > Use ISO8859-1 fonts for US-ASCII part of various > encodings. > > ...and: > -n, --noucsfont(=bool) > Use non-Unicode fonts even when mlterm encoding is > UTF-8. Useful when you don't have ISO10646-1 > fonts and you want to use UTF-8 encoding. The > default is false. > > ...and: > -u, --onlyucsfont(=bool) > Use Unicode fonts even when mlterm encoding is not > UTF-8. Useful when you have ISO10646 fonts but > you don't have other fonts and want to use non- > UTF-8 encodings. Note that conversion to Unicode > is lossy. i.e. if mlterm encoding is not a subset > of Unicode like ISO-2022-JP-2 or EUC-TW, charac- > ters which are regarded as a same character in > Unicode will be displayed with the same glyph and > cannot be distinguished. > > The default is false. > > ...and: > --ucsnoconv=value > Use unicode fonts partially regardless of -n > option. > > e.g.) --ucsnoconv=U+1234-5678,U+0123-4567 > > ...and: I'm too dense to see how this related to title. > CONFIGURATION > mlterm loads configuration files of "main", "font", > "vfont", "tfont", "aafont", "vaafont", "taafont", > "color", "key", "termcap", and "xim" on start up. "menu" > configuration file is loaded by the configurable menu > displayer (mlterm-menu). See the section of CONFIGURABLE > MENU for detail. > ..also chk your mlterm's GUI CONFIGURATOR, which may have changed > things to your displeasure. the only config file I get is main. I found that Ctl=both mouse buttons when mlterm open did raise a menu. None seemed of use. One seems to have $SWP checked, but when I unchecked it I any access to the configuration menu. Can't get it back. > ..you may be looking for mlterm's equvivalent of konsole's %w (which > also sets konsole's tab names) and xterm's -title (alias -T ) > in man xterm: I don't run any desktop environment, and so konsole not installed. > title (class Title) > Specifies a string that may be used by the window > manager when displaying this application. > ..try title=$PWD in your ~/.mlterm/main config file and tell us. > Me, I find $PS1 sexier. ;o) I did, and if I say title-$PWD, it is "$PWD" that is displayed as title. Haines Brown _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
