xterm titles

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 07:45 -0500, Fletcher Mattox wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How does one specify the title of an xterm?  As best I can tell, it
> always puts "$USER at HOST:$PWD" in the title bar, and ignores the -title
> and -name switches.
> 
> Thanks
> Fletcher
> 
If you're asking about sh/bash then this is what I have for my PS1
variable:
        zamb ~ $ echo $PS1
        \033]0;\u@\w\007\u \w $
        
This will put "user at working_dir" in the title bar and "user working_dir
$ " in the prompt.

To tell xterm to change the title bar you must issue '\033]0;' then put
what you want to appear in the title then close it with '\007.

Here is an example: if you want to change your title bar to "Hi World!"
run the following: echo -n -e '\033]0;Hi World!\007'.

Ziyad.