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[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Paul Szabo wrote:

>>> xterm can't change it's title any more. ...
>> ... look at the control-right-mouse entry for "Enable Title Ops" ...
>
> Testing my own karmic machine: the xterm default "Allow Title Ops" is
> ticked, "Allow Window Ops" is not ticked. Apparently regardless of

allowTitleOps doesn't have an effect on retrieving the title.
That's controlled via allowWindowOps:

        allowTitleOps (class AllowTitleOps)
                Specifies whether control  sequences  that  modify  the  window
                title or icon name should be allowed.  The default is "true."

        allowWindowOps (class AllowWindowOps)
                Specifies whether extended window control sequences (as used in
                dtterm) should  be  allowed.   These  include  several  control
                sequences which manipulate the window size or position, as well
                as reporting these values and the title or icon name.  Each  of
                these can be abused in a script; curiously enough most terminal
                emulators that implement these restrict only a  small  part  of
                the repertoire.  For fine-tuning, see disallowedWindowOps.  The
                default is "false."

(my recent changes in-filled some empty slots in the dtterm list, but did
not alter the allowTitleOps feature, since that was separate from dtterm).

> setting, using
>  perl -e 'print "\e\]0;;bad-command;\a\e\[21t"'
> does not set the title; but with "Allow Window Ops" ticked, it echoes
> the bad command into the input buffer.
>
> Cheers, Paul
>
> Paul Szabo   psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
> School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia
>
> -- 
> Window title, DECRQSS security
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311983
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Window title, DECRQSS security
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311983
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