Change konsole session name

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Description:

This little script on your ~/.bashrc will change the konsole session name on the fly. Also will put the remote host name if you connect it with ssh wraper kssh.

This can serve you to make more interesting things.

The screenshot is the original 5 minutes script.

Last changelog:

15 years ago

0.21:
-Bug fix: now "really" works for root

0.2:
-No magic in konsole detection: use of KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION enviroment variable
-Only change konsole name only when needed
-Implemented the wintermte's idea as a internal function. Called kssh

0.1:
-Initial release.

marycstewart
2 months ago

4 4 soso

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bk12
15 years ago

Looks similar to this one:

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=6976

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Traktopel
15 years ago

When I su.. I get "bash: touch_konsole: command not found" upon running _any_ command with root.

Any ideas?

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mrthc
15 years ago

you must put the code in root's bashrc.

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romvinot
15 years ago

I like this little script and it has already been added to my bashrc.

Could it be possible to get only the last 3 directories instead of the whole path (from $HOME) ?

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mrthc
15 years ago

Can you explain better? write here or mail me thc{at}wanadoo{dot}es.

Thanks

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pdreker
15 years ago

I am not the original poster, but I think what he means is that only the last 3 components of the path should be used to rename the konsole session.

I have a rather deep directory structure here and using your script would sometimes rename my konsole session to e.g. "~/Desktop/Development/Debian/Packages/somepackage-1.2.3/debian" which is a little bit too long to be really useful (the tabs become really wide)...

Using only the last 2 or 3 components the session would be renamed to "Packages/somepackage-1.2.3/debian" or "somepackage-1.2.3/debian". Still rather long but better than the aforementioned name ;-)

One usually knwos where approximately one is in one's own dir structure, so one only needs a short reminder which session is where. The complete path is uneccessary IMO...

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wintermte
15 years ago

I have a possible enhancement for this that can rename the Konsole session when you ssh to another host to the remote host name.

Try this in the .bashrc (mostly the same):
# Look if the parent is konsole
dcop konsole-$PPID &> /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
#OK we are on konsole
PROMPT_COMMAND=touch_konsole
export INKONSOLE=$PPID
else
export INKONSOLE=0
fi#!/bin/sh
# Look if the parent is konsole
echo $INKONSOLE
if [ $INKONSOLE -gt 0 ]; then
#OK we are on konsole
CURRENT_SESSION=`dcop konsole-$INKONSOLE konsole currentSession`
dcop konsole-$INKONSOLE $CURRENT_SESSION renameSession "$1"
fi

/usr/bin/ssh -X $1 # the -X is optional

alias ssh="~/bin/ssh"

Create a script in ~/bin/ called ssh which contains:

#!/bin/sh
# Look if the parent is konsole
echo $INKONSOLE
if [ $INKONSOLE -gt 0 ]; then
#OK we are on konsole
CURRENT_SESSION=`dcop konsole-$INKONSOLE konsole currentSession`
dcop konsole-$INKONSOLE $CURRENT_SESSION renameSession "$1"
fi

/usr/bin/ssh -X $1

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