reflecting names of running applications in terminal-names

[David Wijnants]

I tried this shell script version of the same thing:

  #!/bin/sh
  # changes the terminal title
  printf "\x1b]0;$1\007"

Works fine with rxvt, but not with xterm =(


Dave.



Joe Klemmer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 15:37, Heiko Berges wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
>         Doesn't seem to do anything for me.
> 
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