newbie and xterm titles

[Jack Coates]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 14:32, Heiko Berges wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:31:10PM +0000, joe mc cool wrote:
> > The link to the archives on www.xfce.org seems to be broken, so forgive
> > me if this is an FAQ.
> 
> Works fine for me.

Works for me unless I'm using the terminal to ssh somewhere, in which
case the title remains okay but the name changes to "ssh".
> 
> 
> > I open xterms with:
> > 
> > 	xterm -title joe -sb -sl (and perhaps -e run_this)
> > 
> > This all works fine.  But when I iconify that window, the icon does not
> > retain its title.  Iconified, it has the title "xterm".
> 
> 
> man xterm =>
> 
>        -T string
>                This option specifies the title for  xterm's  win-
>                dows.  It is equivalent to -title.
> 
>        -n string
>                This  option  specifies  the icon name for xterm's
>                windows.   It  is  shorthand  for  specifying  the
>                ``*iconName'' resource.  
> 
> 
> 	HTH,
> 	Heiko
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