Title of tha Xfterm [4.0.6]

[Oliver Lehmann]

Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:

> Hello,
> I would like to know what's the possibilities to display the title of an
> xfterm4 on 4.0.6 release
> 
> The perfect would be to have the pissibilty to display the "$hostname :
> $PWD" on some xfterms (those which remote ssh remote servers) and on
> some xfterms i would set a simple title ("foo" , "bar", "whatever" ...)
> 
> Would you help me to find out ?

terminal emulator titles are set by printing an escape sequence.

put sth. like

printf "\033]2;%s%s\007\033]1;\007" $HOST :`pwd`

in the dot-file your shell starts up automaticly.

>From my .cshrc (but I guess you don't use tcsh)

    if ($?DISPLAY || $TERM == xterm-color || $TERM == xterm) then
        alias header    'printf "\033]2;%s%s\007\033]1;\007" $HOST
:`dirs`'
        alias cd        'chdir \!* && header'
        header  
    endif

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