On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Does anyone here know how to get the currently running program name to show
> up in the title of your xterm windows? I don't mean using the "-T" or "-n"
> switches; I mean something that occurs for every command you run. So if, for
> example, I run a lengthy foreground job "foo", "foo" would appear in the xterm
> title bar. MS-Windoze does this.
Send the following escape sequence: <ESC> ] 0 ; <TITLE> ^G ^M
For example:
perl -e 'printf "\033];%s\007\n", "Foo Bar";'
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