Luke Vanderfluit wrote:
> Hi.
>
> How are you all doing?
>
> I use lots of xterms on my screen.
> I'd like to be able to change the title of the xterm window, by type in it at 
> the prompt.
>
> Anyone know how to do this?
>
> Currently I have the title dynamically show the path but that isn't enough to 
> distinguish when I have them 'rolled up' since I am working on several files 
> simultaneously from the same directory.
>
> Is there any other way anyone knows of that I could make each window 
> distinguishable preferably with a meaningful title?
websearch using something like say, xterm title
first hit is:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterm-Title.html

|xterm -T "My XTerm's Title" -n "My XTerm's Icon Title"

you may also want to read the appropriate section on dynamically setting
the title for your shell, so you can disable that...


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