[PLUG] dynamic xterm titles?

[Diego Zamboni]

pweber1@purdue.edu said:
> is there any way to have xterm titles dynamically update? it would
> help to distinguish them from active window lists.. 

I have a csh alias 'termtitle' defined as follows:

alias   termtitle      'echo -n "ESC]2;\!*^G"'

Where <ESC> and ^G where inserted (in vi) using CTRL-v followed by ESC and 
CTRL-g, respectively.

Then you say 'termtitle Whatever you want' and the title changes 
appropriately. In general, you can do:

echo "ESC]2;Whatever you want^G"

to set the terminal title. I have tested this at least in xterm, rxvt, aterm 
and Eterm.

--Diego