Re: OT: setting xterm/rxvt window names

[star@starshine.org (Heather Stern)]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:27:16AM -0700, Michael K O'Brien wrote:
> Hola~
> 
> About two weeks ago, I found that I could no longer set the window and icon
> title of an xterm or rxvt window with the following script:
> 
>     echo -n "\033]0;$*\007"
> 
> This happens under rxvt, xterm, WindowMaker, and blackbox. Anyone else seeing
> this? Is there another way to set the title on an already launched shell? Is
> this a function of the window manager, the terminal, or the shell?
> 
> MO

I usually see it done at the shell level, but perhaps you should try
	apt-get install xtermset

xtermset allows you to update any of the options that would have been on
the xterm command line.

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