$WINDOWID in dtterm

janine · 09-15-2005, 06:16 AM

Hey guys,

I've got a problem about the $WINDOWID variable I wanted to print into a file, when a new terminal window is opend.

I tried this in Solaris 8, /usr/dt/bin/dtterm:

Code:

echo "User $USER opened terminal window $WINDOWID at 'date' >> /tmp/term.log

The variable for user works, but the one for the window id doesn't!
I only get --> User root opened terminal window at ...
Does anybody know why? They both work in every shell, so that shouldn't be the problem.

thanks
janine

jlliagre · 09-15-2005, 09:52 AM

WINDOWID works for me with dtterm, and is in the dtterm manual page:

Code:

        WINDOWID       The terminal emulator sets the
                       subprocess's WINDOWID environment variable
                       to the window number of the window in
                       which text is rendered.

janine · 09-16-2005, 06:48 AM

@jlliagre

Quote:

WINDOWID works for me with dtterm

If you did't catch it, I didn't meant the command dtterm.

As I said, I placed the line in

Quote:

/usr/dt/bin/dtterm

. Mainly it includs:

Code:

echo "User $USER opened terminal window $WINDOWID at " `date` >> /tmp/term.log
/usr/dt/bin/dtterm.original $*
echo "User $USER closed terminal window $WINDOWID at " `date`>> /tmp/term.log

When I open a new window, or close a window, it should show, witch window I closed, but it doesn't.

jlliagre · 09-16-2005, 08:46 AM

Okay, the WINDOWID variable is only set in the dtterm command's child processes, but this won't affect variables from the parent process.