Re: Adding terminal title support for psqlrc

On 08/01/2018 10:55 AM, ik wrote:
> hi,
>
> Thank you, it does not effect the terminal title.
>
> As Adrian answered me, it is not supported :/

I was wrong:

https://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-set-xterm-titles-in-psql.html

To get this to work in Konsole I had to edit the profile to have Tab
title format use %w (Window title set by shell).

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> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
> <mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>> wrote:
>
> ik <idokan(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:idokan(at)gmail(dot)com>> writes:
> > Is there a way to add terminal title information for psqlrc that cn display
> > what schema I am, operation that is execute and stuff like that?
>
> Most terminal programs recognize escape sequences to set the window
> title.  So you could set values for PROMPTn that cause updates in
> the title.  There's an example in
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/app-psql.html#APP-PSQL-PROMPTING
> <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/app-psql.html#APP-PSQL-PROMPTING>
>
> although it's just talking about a color change.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>
>

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