Changing terminal title through escape sequences

Ben Edwards funkytwig at gmail.com
Thu May 3 17:22:34 UTC 2007


On 03/05/07, Dave Howorth <dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Ben Edwards wrote:
> > Been looking around and the below should work but it does not;(
> >
> > echo -ne "\033]1;Hello World\007"
> >
> > Any idea why/how to make it work?
>
> That string sets the icon. You want 0 or 2 instead of 1

Tried 0, 1 and 2.  noe change title;(

Ben

>
> <http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Xterm-Title.html#ss3.1>
>
> Cheers, Dave
>
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