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Re: Setting icon title for an xterm

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From: Philip Muench
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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From: muench-philip@math.yale.edu (Philip Muench)
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Subject: Re: Setting icon title for an xterm
Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:01:31 -0500
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