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In article Hq2@cs.uiuc.edu, schwager@mike.cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager) writes:
|>
|>Ladees and Germs,
|>How would I set the icon title for an xterm, from that xterm.  I already
|>know how to reset the titlebar title, but I forgot where I got that
|>information from.... if you could point me to where you got your info from,
|>that would be appreciated.  I tried to do a man xterm to no avail.  Thanks!

One way is with the -n option as in:

	xterm -T <titlebar string> -n <icon name string> 


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I have a small script which you run from inside an xterm which changes it's
name in the window title bar and on the icon. I got the escape codes need
from the file ctlseqs.ms which came with the xterm source. Hope this  is
useful.
		Paul Rensing

------- script xtermname :
#!/bin/csh
# change the name of an xterm to the first argument.
# run this in the xterm whose name you want to change

echo "]0;"$1""
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Home: (415) 327-3751
Work: (415) 926-3593
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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

schwager@mike.cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager) writes:
> How would I set the icon title for an xterm, from that xterm.  I already
> know how to reset the titlebar title ...

The following script lets you change the titlebar, the icon name, or
(the default behavior) both at once.

Examples:
	titlebar New Name
	titlebar -n New IconName
	titlebar -T New Title

============================== CUT HERE ==============================
#! /bin/sh

# titlebar - sets titlebar and icon name

param=0

esc=` echo X | tr X '\033' `
bel=` echo X | tr X '\007' `

case "$1" in
  -n | -icon[nN]ame)
		param=1; shift ;;
  -T | -title)
		param=2; shift ;;
  -*)
		echo >&2 'usage: titlebar [-T | -n] text'; exit 1 ;;
esac

echo "${esc}]${param};$*${bel}"
============================== CUT HERE ==============================

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.
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----------------------------/|-|--|-|--|------Michael-Smith-------------------
smith@pell.anu.edu.au      /_| |\ | |  |      Mathematics Research Section
--------------------------/--|-|-\|-|_/|------Australian-National-University--

In article <C17oFA.Hq2@cs.uiuc.edu>, schwager@mike.cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager) writes:
|> 
|> Ladees and Germs,
|> How would I set the icon title for an xterm, from that xterm.  I already
|> know how to reset the titlebar title, but I forgot where I got that
|> information from.... if you could point me to where you got your info from,
|> that would be appreciated.  I tried to do a man xterm to no avail.  Thanks!
|> -Mike Schwager
|> -Mike
|> aka, Mike Schwager               |"I will never apologize for the United States
|> INTERNET:schwager@cs.uiuc.edu    | of America, ever.  I don't care what the
|> Bye, George!!!                   | facts are."  -George Bush
|> University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., for whom I do not speak
|> 

One way to do it dynamically is...

echo "^[]2;string^G	# to set the xterm title bar, and...
echo "^[]1;string^G	# to set the icon name.

where ^[ is escape and ^G is ctrl-G. You can of course use this inside
scripts etc. You can also alias 'cd' to change the title bar to the
current working directory etc. 101 uses.

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That's great if you use xterms.  How would I go about deciding if the
user us running xterm or dxterm and sending the appropriate escape
codes to set the title bar?

Grant

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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