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Okay you nerds, let's see what you got! Riddle me this:

I have a Cygwin X11 server running on my laptop so that I can do X11 forwarding and see popup windows for email, IMing... and since I'm running on a few different machines at once I also like keeping a few different xterms open!

Now, here's the problem:

One of the servers I'm sshing into automatically logs me out after 90 minutes of inactivity, so I have a script running that just disconnects and reconnects every 80 minutes.

Now, I want that damn xterm there all the time, so my login script for that server includes creating an xterm window. However, I don't want a window popping up every 80 mintues so I start it with xterm -iconic.

HOWEVER!

the Cygwin X11 server in -multiwindow mode (which I use), doesn't have proper support for starting windows minimized!

However, it does handle messages telling it to minimize windows (just not being told to create a window in that state). So...

Any ideas?

Maybe some way to immediately send a message telling it to minimize the xterm? Maybe I could launch the xterm with a script that tells the window its in to minimize itself (like xterm -e minimize-me)? Anyone know how to make such a script?

If someone can figure out how to fix this I will be impressed!

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Oh another one...

Just one of the servers doesn't seem to be honoring xterm -title "My Aesthetically Pleasing Thematic Title". No matter what I try to do I always get "user@server:directory"!! Any ideas?

Actually, I'm thinking, maybe if instead of having it open a shell I have it open a script which runs a shell that might fix it since the shell is probably what's changing the title...

Mmm...

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I found wmctrl which seems like it could do this, but...

Since I'm using X11 forwarding over ssh it can't find a window manager! If I install the Cygwin version of wmctrl locally and run it in a Cygwin shell I can tell it to minimize the windows, but well... gee! I can't imagine any way to get my ssh session to tell my locally running Cygwin to run a script... that would just be ludicrous!

I could also run a script constantly that checks for new windows and minimizes them when it sees a new pid and the right title and minimizes them or something but jesus that's just completely absurd.

:banging head:

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The xterm title is likely to be resetted by one of those starting scripts. Like .bashrc or .bash_profile or even worse. There is an ANSI sequence I believe for setting the title.

Just googled this: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/xterm-title-bar-manipulations.html

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Sweet titlebar fixed!

I just have the script that launches the xterm change PS1 before it launches it then set it back now!!

Thanks!

I'm still stuck on the starting xterms minimized problem though...