Re: FVWM: Changing the xterm title bar label

From: Richard Lister <listerrj_at_helios.aston.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 12:29:03 +0000

On Wed, 7 Feb 1996 15:47:01 -0500
Mark Valery <valery_at_UICC.COM>
wrote concerning 'FVWM: Changing the xterm title bar label':
>
> How do I go about changing the label on an existing xterm titlebar
> from within that xterm?
> I'm running 2.0p38

You need to use xterm escape sequences (listed in a file called ctlseqs.ms
which comes with the xterm distribution). For bash I do something like the
following in my shell startup file:

        IDNAME="`whoami`"
        ESC="\033"
        TITLESTRING="\[${ESC}]0;${IDNAME}_at_\h\]"

        PS1="${TITLESTRING}\\$ "

This puts the string "username_at_machine_name" into the title bar. Putting
the escapes in my prompt means it is updated on rlogins, etc.

Ric

 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Richard J. Lister r.j.lister_at_aston.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
            Research Assistant, Neural Computing Research Group
                  Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.ncrg.aston.ac.uk/~listerrj/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Received on Thu Feb 08 1996 - 06:28:03 GMT