On 2012.03.20 at 12:09 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf > <mar...@trippelsdorf.de> wrote: > > On 2012.03.20 at 10:14 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Following a recent eix version update, after running eix-sync it > >> leaves the session name on my screen status bar like: > >> > >> $eix-sync: Finished > >> > >> does anyone know anything about that? > >> > >> Is there perhaps something I can add to my shell prompt to make it > >> reset the status bar title after a program exits? > > > > See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407473 . > > > > $ echo -n "\033kzsh\033\\" > > will set "zsh" in the status bar. > > > > There is no way to reset the status bar title automatically, because > > there is no way to determine its content before changing it. > > Thanks, that bug is exactly what I'm talking about. > > Unfortunately. the echo command or similar that I've found just echo > the text back to my terminal and don't change the title in the status > bar. I am using bash, not zsh, so maybe the syntax is different or > more likely I've got something set up wrong. :)
The following command should work in both shells: $ printf "\033kbash\033\\" -- Markus
