Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!jmsellens
From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Subject: Re: escape sequence to change title?
Message-ID: <1991May24.191417.22037@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Not the DCS Secret Police
References: <9105212004.AA18363@statsci.com> <MELBY.91May23013939@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP>
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 19:14:17 GMT
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In article <MELBY.91May23013939@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP> 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.