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From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: xterm titles in olwm
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Date: 23 Apr 91 09:10:58 GMT
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In-reply-to: jfd@octel.UUCP's message of 19 Apr 91 01:21:20 GMT

>>>>> On 19 Apr 91 01:21:20 GMT, jfd@octel.UUCP (John F. Detke) said:

jfd> I can't for the life of me get control sequences to alter the title of my
jfd> xterms. I have RTFM, and the FAQ in comp.windows.x, but neither of those methods
jfd> work. Any clues as to what I am doing wrong? If it matters, Sparc SunOS 4.1,
jfd> openwindows 2.0.

jfd> Thanks,  
jfd> jfd


The following alias (for csh && tcsh) changes the title of the xterm
to the current directory:

if ($?TERM && $TERM == 'xterm') then 
  alias cd 'cd \!*;xtitle "  " $HOST": "$cwd"  "'
endif

Now, save the appended program as xtitle.c somewhere in your
path, and compile it as follows:

$ cc -o xtitle xtitle.c

You can also just do a

$ xtitle Whatever-your-heart-desires

to change it as well.

Hope it helps!

jc
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--  Remove everything above and including this line and save to xtitle.c --
#include <stdio.h>

/* 
* This program takes the input string and puts it into the 
* the xterm title.  If you change the value of the first 
* number in the printf statement, you can determine where
* the string will go.  You can use either 0, 1, or 2.  0
* puts it in the title of the xterm; 1 puts it into the
* the icon name, and 2 does both.
*/ 


main(argc, argv)
int argc; char *argv[];
{
	char buff[512];

	argv++; argc--;
	buff[0] = '\0';
	while (argc--) {
		strcat( buff, *argv++ );
		strcat( buff, " " );
	}
	buff[strlen(buff)-1] = '\0';
	printf( "%c]0;%s%c", (char)27, buff, (char)7 ); fflush(stdout);
}