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Article #731Re: Setting icon title for an xterm
From: Philip Muench
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 04:01
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 04:01
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In article <C189wo.3HG@SSD.intel.com> jkearns@ssd.intel.com (Jerry Kearns) writes: >In article <SMITH.93Jan22090752@wilton.anu.edu.au>, smith@pell.anu.edu.au (Michael Smith) writes: >|> Mike Schwager writes: >|> > How would I set the icon title for an xterm, from that xterm. >|> >|> try defining this alias in your .cshrc file: >|> >|> alias nameme 'echo -n "]2;\!:1]1;\!:2"' >|> >|> where the two "^[" are ESCape characters, and the two "^G" are control-G >|> characters (if using emacs, type control-q before the escape and control-G >|> characters; if typing this straight into xterm window use control-v instead >|> of control-q). >|> >|> To rename your xterm, just type >|> >|> nameme "title name" "icon name" >|> >|> Cheers, >|> Michael. >|> -- >|> ----------------------------/|-|--|-|--|------Michael-Smith------------------- >|> smith@pell.anu.edu.au /_| |\ | | | Mathematics Research Section >|> --------------------------/--|-|-\|-|_/|------Australian-National-University-- > >This seems to work for me in csh, but not ksh. What am I doing wrong? >Jerry Remember the "alias" command in ksh has an "=" between the name and the definition. -Philip Muench
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!yale!yale.edu!not-for-mail From: muench-philip@math.yale.edu (Philip Muench) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps Subject: Re: Setting icon title for an xterm Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:01:31 -0500 Organization: Yale University Mathematics Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2155 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <1kaa6rINN2r7@CANTOR.MATH.YALE.EDU> References: <C17oFA.Hq2@cs.uiuc.edu> <SMITH.93Jan22090752@wilton.anu.edu.au> <C189wo.3HG@SSD.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cantor.math.yale.edu