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From: echarne@thebeach.nrtc.northrop.com (Eli B. Charne <echarne>)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Changing Window and Icon Labels Using Escape Sequences
Message-ID: <3110@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com>
Date: 4 Aug 89 17:42:48 GMT
References: <5385@sybase.sybase.com>
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Reply-To: echarne@nrtc.northrop.com (Eli B. Charne)
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In article <5385@sybase.sybase.com> forrest@sybase.com writes:

>[...] What I'd like is to be
>able to change the labeling "on the fly" from a remote host by sending
>an escape sequence (from the remote host) that will be interpreted
>by the DecWindows Server on my workstation. Is this possible?

  Sure is.  I have each machine I log into send this sequence followed by the
  machine name, so that my window always properly displays the name of the
  machine I am currently logged onto.

>Does anyone know how to do this?

  Just send the sequence: ESC] SOME_STRING
  (that`s ESCape, close square bracket, a space, then some string"
  to change the window name to the string.  (an xterm window that is.)


                                                     -Eli

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