62918 – xtermTitle() does not change title of advanced xterms

Bug 62918 - xtermTitle() does not change title of advanced xterms

Summary: xtermTitle() does not change title of advanced xterms

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2004-09-05 05:37 UTC by John Steele Scott
Modified:	2004-10-22 08:48 UTC (History)
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Description John Steele Scott 2004-09-05 05:37:52 UTC

The xtermTitle method in /usr/lib/python/pym/output.py checks for TERM=xterm. However, /etc/termcap lists another 23 terminals which have names beginning with "xterm". Personally, I use TERM=xterm-xfree86, because then I can get a colourised emacs on a Solaris server I need to work on sometimes. xtermTitle() should change the title for these terminals as well. 

The suggested bash idiom is shown at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterm-Title-4.html#ss4.3

Perhaps in python the solution would look something like:
for termtype in ["xterm","Eterm","aterm","rxvt","screen"]:
  if myt.startswith(termtype):
    ... change title bar . . . 

Cool?

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-22 08:48:13 UTC

Bug has been fixed and released in stable portages on or before 2.0.51-r2