[xpert] Re: escape sequence to change title?

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From: John M. Sellens
Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 01:19

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Archive-name: x11/terminal/xterm-escapes/0--
Archive: export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/xterm.escapes [18.30.0.238]
Original-posting-by: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Original-subject: Re: escape sequence to change title?
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)


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.

-- comp.archives file verification
export.lcs.mit.edu
-rw-rw-rw-  1 ftp      30          39270 Dec 30 02:07 /contrib/xterm.escapes
found xterm-escapes ok
export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/xterm.escapes

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