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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: latest eix versions messes with my screen status bar
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:11:14
Message-Id: CAEH5T2PiHYoyjKfJrFRSCZPJUY155=R9dcieX4S+vq=8WLR8QQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: latest eix versions messes with my screen status bar by Markus Trippelsdorf
1 On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf
2 <markus@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
3 > On 2012.03.20 at 10:14 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
4 >> Hi,
5 >>
6 >> Following a recent eix version update, after running eix-sync it
7 >> leaves the session name on my screen status bar like:
8 >>
9 >> $eix-sync: Finished
10 >>
11 >> does anyone know anything about that?
12 >>
13 >> Is there perhaps something I can add to my shell prompt to make it
14 >> reset the status bar title after a program exits?
15 >
16 > See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407473 .
17 >
18 > $ echo -n "\033kzsh\033\\"
19 > will set "zsh" in the status bar.
20 >
21 > There is no way to reset the status bar title automatically, because
22 > there is no way to determine its content before changing it.
23
24 Thanks, that bug is exactly what I'm talking about.
25
26 Unfortunately. the echo command or similar that I've found just echo
27 the text back to my terminal and don't change the title in the status
28 bar. I am using bash, not zsh, so maybe the syntax is different or
29 more likely I've got something set up wrong. :)

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[gentoo-user] Re: Re: latest eix versions messes with my screen status bar Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@××××××××××××.de>