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Re: Changing the title of an xterm

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From: Michiel Wories
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 1991 11:05
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jsv9504@isc.rit.edu (J.S. Veiss) writes:

>In sunview, you can change the title of an existing window via an escape sequence.
>Jepher Veiss

I have added this line into my .cshrc to change the title of a
xterm session (you can use the escape sequence any other way):

alias   xname      echo -n "^[]l\!*^["

Regards,
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Michiel Wories @ Baan International, The Netherlands
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From: michiel@baan.UUCP (Michiel Wories)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Changing the title of an xterm
Message-ID: <1043@baan.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 91 11:05:00 GMT
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