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From: Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:03:52
Message-Id: 4FCBA677.5060707@wht.com.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing by YoYo Siska
1 On 3/06/2012 10:54 PM, YoYo Siska wrote:
2 > On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:44:31AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 >> On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:08:39PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote
4 >>>
5 >>> Is there a way so that the terminal that the emerge is happening in can
6 >>> display additional info? At the moment, I get:
7 >>>
8 >>> /home/agl: emerge
9 >>>
10 >>> can I get, say:
11 >>>
12 >>> /home/agl: emerge www-client/firefox
13 >
14 > Are you using konsole ? As walter said, emerge sets the title of the
15 > shell/terminal window to include the current package, however konsole
16 > does not (by default) show the titles set by programs, but is configured
17 > to only show the working dir and command name...
18 >
19 > Just go to Settings -> Edit current profile -> Tabs (tab ;) and
20 > you will see two things: Tab title format and Remote tab title format
21 > (the defautl for the first is '%d: %n' == 'current dir: current
22 > command', which is exactly what you wrote), just change them to '%w' and
23 > you will get what every other decent terminal app shows ;) (you can
24 > click the "Insert" dropdown to see other options)
25 >
26 > yoyo
27 >
28
29 Yoyo,
30 You've hit the nail on the head here. I am indeed using konsole, not
31 xterm, and this will give me exactly what I want.
32
33 Thanks to everyone else for their suggestions as well, some of which
34 I'll have to look into, in particular the logging.
35
36 Andrew