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From: ferg@88opensi.UUCP (John Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Title bar flicker fix for XTerm [setting title only on "cd"]
Message-ID: <514@88opensi.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 90 19:07:58 GMT
References: <6459@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <28434@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <	<1990Oct3.011511.2263@mlb.semi.harris.com>> <	<1990Oct2.232740@Pkg.Mcc.COM>> <BRISTER.90Oct3111036@westworld.decwrl.dec.com> <rhoward.654984151@juliet>
Reply-To: ferg@88open.ORG (John Ferguson)
Organization: 88open Consortium Ltd., San Jose
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In article <rhoward.654984151@juliet> rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
>....
>BTW, Where in the xterm docs can I found out what the string to set the
>     title should be?
>
In the back of the O'Reilly 'X Window System User's Guide'.  The sequence is
like this:

\E]2;title-string^G

where '\E' is escape and '^G' is <ctrl>-G, 'title-string' is the string to be
printed, and the rest are literal ASCII characters.  With ksh I use it like
this:

_cd() {
   'cd' $*
   if [ "$TERM" = "xterms" ]
   then
      echoesc "\E]2;`hostname`: ${PWD}^G"
   fi
}
alias -x cd=_cd


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