seems to preserve title properly when actually running it; had botched name of app (xwininfo) to check for existence of
which xprop &>/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# gnome-terminal doesn't set WINDOWID currently, but we can work around this.
- if [[ -z "$WINDOWID" && ! -z "$(which wininfo)" ]]; then
+ if [[ -z "$WINDOWID" && ! -z "$(which xwininfo)" ]]; then
#not good solution. term_title_found="$(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.