Re: Adding terminal title support for psqlrc - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Adding terminal title support for psqlrc
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Msg-id 59cf581d-a2ec-d381-b0c0-e5ca591938f2@aklaver.com
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In response to Re: Adding terminal title support for psqlrc  (ik <idokan@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Adding terminal title support for psqlrc
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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).


> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us 
> <mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>> wrote:
> 
>     ik <idokan@gmail.com <mailto:idokan@gmail.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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