How to Display Date and Time in the active window title?

[Gerhard den Hollander]

* Markus Tacker <mtacker at itfuture.de> (Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:29:51PM +0100)

>>Not possible. Only way to do this is to modify the source code, but you 
>>have to be a programmer with C++ and KDE knowledge to do this.

>   Sigh. Expected that.
>   I hoped there was a way with dcop to get the Window witch has the
>   focus and change its title.

Well, not with dcop, but you can do it the old fashioned 1992 way 
(this worked on a convex with tcsh 5.something, and still works under
linux)


There are xterm escape sequences which you can use to change the title in
the title bar of your window.

You can use the builtin tcsh functions to execute these xterm escape
sequences every second (with some limitations, see the tcsh man page)

check the examples in the tcsh man page (look for precmd)

Use the attached script (titledate) as in
set tperiod=1
alias periodic titledate

This will update the title bar to the current time once every minute.

(works for both xterms and konsoles)




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