displaying hostname on xterm window titlebar

[Shivkumar]

Hi,

I am working on various hpux 11i boxes by connecting through Reflection 12 remote connection software. Sometime it is very confusing to identify on which box i am working.

Can anyone suggest "xterm" command to display the titlebar of the hostname of the unix servers ?

Thanks,
Shiv

[Paul Eadington_1 · Accepted solution]

I use the following line buried in a little script for popping up new windows.

nohup xterm -title $1 -n $1 -sb -e /opt/ssh/bin/ssh $1 -l root 2>&1 1>/dev/null&

Where $1 is the name of the system

Hope this helps

[Stephen Keane]

xterm -title `uname -n` ....

This will show you the hostname of the box at the time the xterm is created. It won't change when you, say, rlogin to another box though. The usual technique is to modify PS1 prompt to include the hostname.

[Eknath]

Hi Shiv

try this

xterm -title `hostname` ....

but I what appreciate stephen says

thanx

eknath

[Enrico P.]

Hi,
I use reflection version 6, if I insert the hostname in the "description" field of the "Connection Type" Windows I can see the hostname in the window titlebar.
I don't know if this changed in the version 12.

Enrico

[Ganesha Sridhara]

Here is sample line:

---------- HP Term -----------
"Hpterm" _o f.exec "hpterm -ls -sb -sl 2048 -fg white -bg black -cr red -n -title "

---------- DT Term -----------
"DtTerm" _o f.exec "dtterm -ls -sb -sl 2048 -fg black -cr red -n -title "

---------- XTerm -----------
"Xterm" _o f.exec "xterm -ls -sb -sl 2048 -fg white -cr red -n -title "


Note add the above line in file:
~/.dt/dtwmrc

To get the list in the mouse right click you can add:

Menu DtRootMenu
{
" Shivkumar " _o f.title
" SHIV " _o f.title
"Hpterm" _o f.exec "hpterm -ls -sb -sl 2048 -fg white -bg black -cr red -n -title "

"DtTerm" _o f.exec "dtterm -ls -sb -sl 2048 -fg black -cr red -n -title "

"Xterm" _o f.exec "xterm -ls -sb -sl 2048 -fg white -cr red -n -title "
}


Regards
Ganesha Sridhara

[Rick Garland]

xterm -name -title ...

Other options you can include such as colors and all but these will get the name of the window and the title on the window. Will work for dtterm as well.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

In the tcsh, you have a special alias 'cwdcmd' that get executed when you do a 'cd'

I've set it to

alias cwdcmd 'glob "\E]0;'${LOGNAME}'@'${HOST}':$cwd ['$$':'$tty']\7"'

where \E is an escape, and \7 the Ctrl-G

This is the escape sequence for an xterm to change the title bar. With this knowledge, you can change it whenever you like, and not - as suggested by all above - just at startup

# perl -le'print "\e]0;$ENV{HOST}\7"'

is one way to set your titlebar to what currently is in $HOST

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Doug O'Leary]

Hey;

I have a function in my ~/.kshrc file on all systems that I manage that updates the xterm title with who I'm logged in as, what system I'm on and my current directory. It's a pretty cool little utility. For instance, my current window shows

dkoleary@linux:/home/dkoleary/working/clients

as the xterm title.
mcd()
{ Me=$(whoami)
Host=$(hostname)
cd $*
Pwd=$(pwd)
echo "^[]0;${Me}@${Host}:${Pwd}^G\c"
}

The definition is as follows:

The echo command is a little tricky. For the ^[ key sequence, hit V and for the ^G, hit VG

Once you have that, alias cd to mcd and you're done...

HTH;

Doug