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.GB27009@???>:
>
> > 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
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