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From: Stuart.Marks@Eng.Sun.COM (Stuart Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: xterm titles in olwm
Message-ID: <zkbuyu6@openlook.Unify.Com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 21:00:30 GMT
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    I can't for the life of me get control sequences to alter the title of
    my xterms.  I have RTFM, and the FAQ in comp.windows.x, but neither of
    those methods work.  Any clues as to what I am doing wrong?  If it
    matters, Sparc SunOS 4.1, openwindows 2.0.

Well, it could be that the FM is out of date. :-)

Here are the escape sequences I use.  Note that \e is escape, ^G is
control-G, and "..." is the text of the label.

	\e]0;...^G		sets both icon and window
	\e]1;...^G		sets icon label
	\e]2;...^G		sets window title

Previous versions of xterm accepted anything other than ^G to terminate
the string.  Starting with X11R4 (I believe) xterm became more
restrictive, and requires that the string be terminated with a ^G.  The
xterm with OpenWindows 2.0 is pretty much identical to the X11R4 xterm.

s'marks

Stuart W. Marks			ARPA: smarks@eng.sun.com
Windows & Graphics Software	UUCP: sun!smarks
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