Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: latest eix versions messes with my screen status bar

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Markus Trippelsdorf
<markus@trippelsdorf.de> wrote:
> On 2012.03.20 at 12:09 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf
>> <markus@trippelsdorf.de> wrote:
>> > On 2012.03.20 at 10:14 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Following a recent eix version update, after running eix-sync it
>> >> leaves the session name on my screen status bar like:
>> >>
>> >> $eix-sync: Finished
>> >>
>> >> does anyone know anything about that?
>> >>
>> >> Is there perhaps something I can add to my shell prompt to make it
>> >> reset the status bar title after a program exits?
>> >
>> > See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407473 .
>> >
>> > $ echo -n "\033kzsh\033\\"
>> > will set "zsh" in the status bar.
>> >
>> > There is no way to reset the status bar title automatically, because
>> > there is no way to determine its content before changing it.
>>
>> Thanks, that bug is exactly what I'm talking about.
>>
>> Unfortunately. the echo command or similar that I've found just echo
>> the text back to my terminal and don't change the title in the status
>> bar. I am using bash, not zsh, so maybe the syntax is different or
>> more likely I've got something set up wrong. :)
>
> The following command should work in both shells:
>
> $ printf "\033kbash\033\\"

That worked. Thank you again!