Re: Are title-bars/tabs necessary?

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms-D+Gtc/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
csant <[email protected]> writes:

>> only window-manager-related space I can afford are the tabs (although
>> I start wondering if they are really necessary too :).

> I have been wondering about that too - and even tried it for a while. But  
> I am afraid I at some point lost track... The main problem usually is that  
> *terminals* (which are the majority of client windows on my system) don't  
> really tell you in the the window title what you were busy with on them...  
> although probably this is a problem that could be solved.

It certainly can be.  Shells like zsh can be programmed to keep the
title bar updated with useful information like user@hostname, the
current working directory, the current running command line, or the
previous command that was run if no command is currently running.  In
many cases this allows the title bar to indicate rather well the
contents of the window.

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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