[Alpine-info] Re: Terminal titlebar changes during alpine use and exit

[Kathryn Hemness]

Turning off "Enable Newmail in Xterm Icon" in the Advanced User Prefs 
worked for me too.  Thanks a lot, Ben.


Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 22:15:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Benjamin R. Haskell <alpine at benizi.com>
To: alpine-info at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [Alpine-info] Terminal titlebar changes during alpine use and exit

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Matt Ackeret wrote:


> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Kathryn Hemness wrote:

>> Does anybody know how to disable the hijacking of the titlebar by alpine?

>

> I think you have some preference turned on.  I just looked through 

> setup/config for 'xterm' but none of the results looked relevant.. But I 

> think you have something turned on to do that.


I think it's:

[ Advanced User Preferences ]
        ...
        [X]  Enable Newmail in Xterm Icon


The title and icon are controlled by similar mechanisms in a typical 
terminal emulator: usually something along the lines of printing

\033]2;title or icon text\007

to the terminal sets the text. Replace the '2' with a '0' for just title, 
'1' for just icon.

Some terminal emulators handle one-or-the-other better. Alpine tries to 
set the icon back to what it thinks should be the right one (a generic 
terminal icon) when it's done, if the option above is enabled. In some 
terminals, that sets the title text, too.

Best,
Ben



Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:49:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Rick Troxel <rick+alpine at helix.nih.gov>
To: alpine-info at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [Alpine-info] Terminal titlebar changes during alpine use and exit

Turning that off works for me.  Thanks, Ben!
-- 
        Rick Troxel      rick at helix.nih.gov     301/435-2983
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