Hi there,
My problem is very common, I have this question in mind since a
decade...

I want to set my terminal title/name: echo '<esc>]2;TITLE<CTRL-G>'

But only for the supported terminal. Instead of doing

case $TERM in aixterm|xterm|dtterm...

I am doing

if `tput >/dev/null 2>&1 kf12`; then echo '<esc>]2;TITLE<CTRL-G>'; fi

Apparently, most Terminal supporting KF12 also support Title.

Could you please give me your opinion ? I would be please to discover
something better !

Kindest Regards
Laurent

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Dana French <dfrench@mtxia.com> wrote:
> laurentschneider@yahoo.com (Laurent Schneider) wrote in message news:<fe0e
47b1.0409290235.55bc8287@posting.google.com>... 

better
case $TERM in *xterm*|rxvt*|dtterm*...
[vbcol=seagreen] 

kf12 is unrelated, unfortunately.
None of the terminfo capabilities deal with this (sorry).
[vbcol=seagreen]
> You may want to look at "shell curses" which is a shell function
> library based on the C language "curses" library:

He wasn't asking any question relevant to your answer.

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> >> laurentschneider@yahoo.com (Laurent Schneider) wrote 
>
> Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote
> kf12 is unrelated, unfortunately.
> None of the terminfo capabilities deal with this (sorry).
>

kf12 is function key F12, and vt100 and ansi does not support it, but
aixterm, xterm and dtterm do support it on my machine (AIX). I also
tried briefly on linux, and konsole and gnome do support kf12.

I admit kf12 is not related to title of terminal.

Thank you for your feedback
Laurent

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Laurent Schneider <laurentschneider@yahoo.com> wrote: 
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> kf12 is function key F12, and vt100 and ansi does not support it, but

I know that - but many terminals have function keys and do not
support titlebars.  But termcap/terminfo predate windowing systems
where titlebars would be used.  A few terminal descriptions use the
status-line capabilities for this purpose, but that is done inconsistently,
so it's not useful in this case.

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Laurent Schneider <laurentschneider@yahoo.com> wrote: 
[vbcol=seagreen]
> kf12 is function key F12, and vt100 and ansi does not support it, but

I know that - but many terminals have function keys and do not
support titlebars.  But termcap/terminfo predate windowing systems
where titlebars would be used.  A few terminal descriptions use the
status-line capabilities for this purpose, but that is done inconsistently,
so it's not useful in this case.

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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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Dana French <dfrench@mtxia.com> wrote:
> laurentschneider@yahoo.com (Laurent Schneider) wrote in message news:<fe0e
47b1.0409290235.55bc8287@posting.google.com>... 

better
case $TERM in *xterm*|rxvt*|dtterm*...
[vbcol=seagreen] 

kf12 is unrelated, unfortunately.
None of the terminfo capabilities deal with this (sorry).
[vbcol=seagreen]
> You may want to look at "shell curses" which is a shell function
> library based on the C language "curses" library:

He wasn't asking any question relevant to your answer.

--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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