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setting title of xterm



Since some time I can't set the title of xterm windows, neither with
'xtermset -title text', nor with 'echo -ne "\033]0;text\007"' or "xterm
-title text'.

I unset PROMPT_COMMAND, of course.  PROMP_COMMANDs default value here
is:

echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"

which results in a nice title, i.e. ": //".

I guess it has something to do with dsa-380.  But there I read:

"Debian has resolved this problem by disabling the window title reporting
escape sequence in xterm; it is understood but ignored. The escape
sequence to set the window title has not been disabled."

So why does setting the window title not work?

I know that this isn't important. But I haven't found similar reports in the
mailing lists or bug reports, so I thought asking here was ok.

Thanks, Michael.

xterm is version 4.2.1-12.1.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux inultus 2.4.21-5-a #1 Tue Aug 26 18:18:39 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.2-9
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.5-3
ii  libncurses5               5.3.20030719-3
ii  libxaw7                   4.2.1-12.1
ii  xlibs                     4.2.1-12.1
libraries

-- no debconf information



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