Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) Newsgroups: comp.archives Subject: [xpert] Re: escape sequence to change title? Message-ID: <1991May25.011905.5200@ox.com> Date: 25 May 91 01:19:05 GMT Article-I.D.: ox.1991May25.011905.5200 References: <9105212004.AA18363@statsci.com> Sender: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) Reply-To: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) Followup-To: comp.windows.x Organization: Not the DCS Secret Police Lines: 26 Approved: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Archive-name: x11/terminal/xterm-escapes/0-- Archive: export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/xterm.escapes [18.30.0.238] Original-posting-by: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) Original-subject: Re: escape sequence to change title? Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) writes: |I use the following csh alias (much shorter than the other alternatives I've |seen here) to change the title on my kterms: | | alias xtitle 'sh -c "(echo -n ""^[]2\;"\!*"^G"") >&2"' I find it much easier to use % xtattr -title 'whatever I want it to be' Also does things like font changing escapes etc. Anonymous ftp from watmath.waterloo.edu in pub/x11/xterm.escapes, or export.lcs.mit.edu in contrib/xterm.escapes. -- comp.archives file verification export.lcs.mit.edu -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 30 39270 Dec 30 02:07 /contrib/xterm.escapes found xterm-escapes ok export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/xterm.escapes