reflecting names of running applications in terminal-names

[Heiko Berges]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:45:22PM +0200, Thomas Schönhoff wrote:

> So I am not able to find the wanted terminal without wading 
> through a lot of others.
> I did not find an appropriate solution for this, does anybodyelse 
> know wht to do !?


You can use an escape sequence to set xterm/xfterm and icon title:

echo -en '^[]0;THE TITLE^G'

^[ == esc
^G == Ctl - G

I use a shellfunction for this.


        Heiko