Renaming window titles

[Fan-iX]

I can change the title of a terminal window by setting the xterm title using echo -ne "\e]0;some title\007", so that I can distinguish between different terminal windows.
Is it possible to rename (preferably edit) other windows like Tile Manager? Now all tiling windows are shown as "Tiling Window Manager" so that I cannot distinguish them clearly before I activate them.

[o-sdn-o]

Indeed, we need to add the ability to edit window titles in the list of windows in the taskbar or in the window itself.

[o-sdn-o]

I implemented renaming the tile manager title using the window menu button. By clicking on this button, the window title changes using the clipboard:

Terminal.Dev.2023-10-18.21-37-45.mp4

[mlopezgva]

Hi!

Doesn't work for me. Edit: tried with primary and secondary (aka ‘*’ and ‘+’).

Using vtm on wezterm on Linux Mint Cinnamon. that would be most interesting.

[o-sdn-o]

Hi! On Unix-like systems there is no direct access to the system clipboard yet, and you may need to copy text inside vtm first to get the text into vtm's internal clipboard.

[o-sdn-o]

If this approach doesn't work, then maybe I broke something and I'll fix it.

[o-sdn-o]

In the upcoming release, it will be possible to do this using a keyboard shortcut. The keyboard shortcut can be specified in the settings.

[mlopezgva]

Hi! On Unix-like systems there is no direct access to the system clipboard yet, and you may need to copy text inside vtm first to get the text into vtm's internal clipboard.

This one works. Just type what I want on the shell and copy it directly. Thanks.

Any way to rename "Site" 'apps'? Right now they're not very useful if I do not know what they "contain". 😉

I gather it's not possible to launch, say, btop, htop or mc directly in their own "window", since they do not create the tty..?

Launching them (like I'd do with tmux -n TOP btop), even in a tile app, would be most interesting. But that's out of the scope of this issue... 👼

[o-sdn-o]

Any way to rename "Site" 'apps'? Right now they're not very useful if I do not know what they "contain". 😉

Right clicking on 'Site' (click by the frame itself) will set its title using the internal clipboard.

[o-sdn-o]

I gather it's not possible to launch, say, btop, htop or mc directly in their own "window", since they do not create the tty..?

Launching them (like I'd do with tmux -n TOP btop), even in a tile app, would be most interesting. But that's out of the scope of this issue... 👼

Oh, I see now that the script engine has been broken for some time now and it is impossible to launch anything through it. I will fix it in upcoming release v0.9.99.56.

With vtm v0.9.99.56 you can do the following:

Run a CUI application inside the running vtm desktop:

• bash:

  printf "vtm.run(title='MC' cmd='mc')" | vtm
  

Run the tile app with three terminals attached:

• bash:

  printf "vtm.run(type=tile title=Terminals cmd='v(h(Term,Term),Term)')" | vtm
  

Run mc and htop inside the tile app:

• bash:

  printf "vtm.set(id=mc title='MC' cmd='mc')" | vtm
  printf "vtm.set(id=htop title='HTop' cmd='htop')" | vtm
  printf "vtm.run(type=tile title=Windows cmd='v(h(mc,htop),mc)')" | vtm
  

  or

  printf "vtm.set(id=mc title='MC' cmd='mc'); vtm.set(id=htop title='HTop' cmd='htop'); vtm.run(type=tile title=Windows cmd='v(h(mc,htop),mc)')" | vtm
  

[Fan-iX]

Hi, I can't get the script engine to work correctly in my Ubuntu-22.04 WSL system. vtm.run(type=term cmd=...), vtm.run(type=dtvt cmd=...) and vtm.run(type=term, cmd=...) all create a blank window on the vtm desktop, no matter what cmd I give.

However, vtm.run(type=tile) work as expected.

[o-sdn-o]

Apparently type=term is broken somewhere. I'll fix it. As a workaround you can try using type=terminal instead. Thanks for the feedback.

[o-sdn-o]

This issue affected all cases where the cwd= parameter was used (including implicitly, as in the case of vtm.run(...)). The message about a successful change of the current directory was written in plain text to the dtvt binary stream, thus breaking communication.

Fixed in v0.9.99.58.