[Buildroot] [PATCH] Display current action in title bar

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jun 15 09:56:13 UTC 2010


On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:47:15 +1000
Paul Jones <paul at pauljones.id.au> wrote:

> -# MESSAGE Macro -- display a message in bold type
> -MESSAGE = echo "$(TERM_BOLD)>>> $($(PKG)_NAME) $($(PKG)_VERSION) $(1)$(TERM_RESET)"
> +# MESSAGE Macro -- display a message in bold type and in the title bar
> +MESSAGE  = echo "$(TERM_BOLD)>>> $($(PKG)_NAME) $($(PKG)_VERSION) $(1)$(TERM_RESET)" \
> +		&& echo -en "\033]2; $($(PKG)_NAME) $($(PKG)_VERSION) $(1) \007"

I've tried this here in my xfterm (XFCE terminal) and it doesn't do
anything. Is my terminal emulator too crappy ?

Anyway, I'm not sure I'd like to see Buildroot hijack the title bar of
my terminal emulator. Or maybe I'm missing the point of your patch ?

Thomas
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