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- From: jkearns@ssd.intel.com (Jerry Kearns)
- Subject: Re: Setting icon title for an xterm
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:43:36 GMT
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- In article <SMITH.93Jan22090752@wilton.anu.edu.au>, smith@pell.anu.edu.au (Michael Smith) writes:
- |> Mike Schwager writes:
- |> > How would I set the icon title for an xterm, from that xterm.
- |>
- |> try defining this alias in your .cshrc file:
- |>
- |> alias nameme 'echo -n "]2;\!:1]1;\!:2"'
- |>
- |> where the two "^[" are ESCape characters, and the two "^G" are control-G
- |> characters (if using emacs, type control-q before the escape and control-G
- |> characters; if typing this straight into xterm window use control-v instead
- |> of control-q).
- |>
- |> To rename your xterm, just type
- |>
- |> nameme "title name" "icon name"
- |>
- |> Cheers,
- |> Michael.
- |> --
- |> ----------------------------/|-|--|-|--|------Michael-Smith-------------------
- |> smith@pell.anu.edu.au /_| |\ | | | Mathematics Research Section
- |> --------------------------/--|-|-\|-|_/|------Australian-National-University--
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- This seems to work for me in csh, but not ksh. What am I doing wrong?
- Jerry
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