From: Andy Arbon <andy_at_andrewarbon.co.uk>
Subject: FVWM: Xterm titles
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 15:08:49 +0100
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> Hello,
>
> Firstly, I'm not 100% sure this is really on topic on the FVWM list for
> which I apologise, but it's definitely a related query.
>
> I am looking for a way to make it easier to tell the many xterms I
> always end up running apart in the window lists. What I am currently
> thinking of doing is changing the title of each xterm to something like
> "xterm (<username>) - <last issued command>"
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> Using the environment variable PROMPT_COMMAND I can give bash a command
> to execute before it draws each prompt, which would seem to be the right
> time to do the change. What I don't know is how to change the xterm
> title from within bash - is it possible, and if so, how?
Hi Andy
Check out
http://cns.georgetown.edu/~ric/howto/Xterm-Title/
Cheers
Ric
Richard J Lister
Dept of Neuroscience
Georgetown University Medical Center
http://cns.georgetown.edu/~ric/
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Received on Mon Sep 16 2002 - 14:00:24 BST