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From: Stuart.Marks@eng.sun.COM (Stuart Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: escape sequence to change title?
Message-ID: <9105171949.AA18629@trantor.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 17 May 91 19:49:00 GMT
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	Yes, it most certainly will work, if you are using an xterm. 
	It could care less what window server it was running on.  *8-)
	However, it *won't* work for cmdtool or such nonsense, which
	are brain dead anyways.

You can indeed use escape sequences to change the title string for cmdtool
and shelltool.  The escape sequences do differ, though, so you'll have to
put some smarts into your shell customization file to make this work if
you intend to switch between xterm and cmdtool.  Here are the ksh-isms
that I use:

    case $TERM in
    sun*)
	# Escape sequences for shelltool/cmdtool:
	#   \e]l...\e\		sets window title
	#   \e]L...\e\		sets icon label
	titleprefix="$(print -n '\033]l')"
	titlesuffix="$(print -n '\033\')"
	iconprefix="$(print -n '\033]L')"
	iconsuffix="$(print -n '\033\')"
	;;
    xterm*)
	# Escape sequences for xterm:
	#   \e]0;...^G		sets both icon and window
	#   \e]1;...^G		sets icon label
	#   \e]2;...^G		sets window title
	titleprefix="$(print -n '\033]2;')"
	titlesuffix="$(print -n '\007')"
	iconprefix="$(print -n '\033]1;')"
	iconsuffix="$(print -n '\007')"
	;;
    *)
	;;
    esac

    function posttitle { print -n "${titleprefix}${1}${titlesuffix}" ; }
    function posticon  { print -n "${iconprefix}${1}${iconsuffix}" ; }
    function postboth  { posttitle "$1" ; posticon "$1" ; }

Enjoy,

s'marks

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