[PLUG] dynamic xterm titles?

Rocky Scaletta rocky@rocky.dhs.org
Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:09:13 -0500


One way is to set the title using the BASH prompt:
   export PS1='\[\033]0;whatever you want to say\007\] the rest of the prompt'

never tried it inside a script...

oh yeah, i found this and other nifty escape sequences in the BASH Prompt
HOW-TO, check out http://www.linux.org/help/

On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> is there any way to have xterm titles dynamically update? it would help to
> distinguish them from active window lists..
> 
> thanks,
> peter
> 

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