fix to stop getting erroneous window title
authorChris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Wed, 3 Oct 2018 07:29:23 +0000 (03:29 -0400)
committerChris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Wed, 3 Oct 2018 07:29:23 +0000 (03:29 -0400)
i hope.  new approach for snagging existing window title.

scripts/tty/terminal_titler.sh

index cb5c9a0e1a844e4110f023177bd95bc86f8a0b3c..7201784c160caa2f52a4c1a88f8614c091d74236 100644 (file)
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@ function get_terminal_title()
   # save the former terminal title if we're running in X with xterm.
   which xprop &>/dev/null
   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-    # gnome-terminal doesn't set WINDOWID currently, but we can work around this if xdotool
-    # is installed.
-    if [[ -z "$WINDOWID" && ! -z "$(which xdotool)" ]]; then
-      term_title_found="$(xprop -id $(xdotool getactivewindow) | perl -nle 'print $1 if /^WM_NAME.+= \"(.*)\"$/')"
+    # gnome-terminal doesn't set WINDOWID currently, but we can work around this.
+    if [[ -z "$WINDOWID" && ! -z "$(which wininfo)" ]]; then
+#not good solution.      term_title_found="$(xprop -id $(xdotool getactivewindow) | perl -nle 'print $1 if /^WM_NAME.+= \"(.*)\"$/')"
+      term_title_found=$(xwininfo -id $(xprop -root | awk '/NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW/ { print $5; exit }') | awk -F\" '/xwininfo:/ { print $2; exit }')
     # check if we're actually using xterm *and* that we have a window ID.
     elif [[ "$TERM" =~ .*"xterm".* && ! -z "$WINDOWID" ]]; then
       term_title_found="$(xprop -id $WINDOWID | perl -nle 'print $1 if /^WM_NAME.+= \"(.*)\"$/')"