Re: FVWM: How do I change the title of windows once they are created?

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:12:33 -0400

"Nitin Malik" <nitin_malik54_at_hotmail.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I use tcsh shell settings.
>
> After I create a whole bunch of xterms via fvwm or otherwise. I am stuck
> with a whole bunch of xterms with the same name. Is there any way I can use
> FvwmIdent, FvwmConsole, etc to change the name of the xterm to something
> relevant?? In other words, I need to dynamically change the window title!!

You can control the title during creation with:

xterm -title abc

You can change the title afterwards with the escape sequence:
^[]2;title\07

I see you use tcsh, so this might not help, but this is how its done
with ksh:

  function shdr { # changes screen title
    if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" ] ; then # This makes Rumba hang, only use on xterm
      print -n '\033]2;'$*'\07'
    fi
  }

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Received on Thu Apr 26 2001 - 12:18:17 BST