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Re: Odd behavior scripting Terminal's default window
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Re: Odd behavior scripting Terminal's default window


  • Subject: Re: Odd behavior scripting Terminal's default window
  • From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:45:32 -0700

Entity Christopher Biagini spoke thus:

>> It seems that when Terminal starts it can't set the window title for
>> the default window.
> How about this? Quit Terminal, then...

> tell application "Terminal"
> set custom title of window 1 to "Applescript result"
> do script "echo 'Terminal launched'" in window 1
> end tell

Yes, that works! But it turns out that Terminal is finicky about window
names WRT its "Windows settings" preferences. In fact, it looks like the
script actually sets the default window title to  "Applescript result" when
that window is in front.

Maybe I'm going crazy.

--
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                                            -- Gnarlodious


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