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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How do I Get the Title of My Putty Window (Emulating an XTerm) Post 302350381 by wpeckham on Thursday 3rd of September 2009 03:36:17 PM
Old 09-03-2009
title for xterm windows.
At first glance I thought this would be easy, but tratting the output of any command expressing this code to the XTERM window successfully in 'interesting'. It is far easier to record environment variables and use them to SET the title, I have not been able to capture it yet.

Have you searched for the trick using search engines?

It should be a shell/xterm trick, not specific to putty.
Last edited by wpeckham; 09-03-2009 at 04:41 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

xtitle

XTITLE(1)						      General Commands Manual							 XTITLE(1)

NAME

       xtitle - set window title and icon name for an X11 terminal window

SYNOPSIS

       xtitle [ -tiq ] [ -- ] string ...  | [ -V ] [ -h ]

DESCRIPTION

       Xtitle  will set the window title and/or the icon name of the terminal window in which it is run to be its command line arguments.  It does
       this by outputting the appropriate xterm(1) control sequence characters.  Unless suppressed, xtitle will also report the  settings  it  has
       made.

OPTIONS

       --	 Interprets all following arguments as strings instead of options.

       -h, --help
		 Prints a helpful usage message.

       -i, --icon
		 Only set the icon name.  Default sets both.

       -t, --title
		 Only set the window title.  Default sets both.

       -v, --verbose
		 Quiet mode.  Doesn't report the settings performed.

       -V, --version
		 Only prints the program version.

CAVEATS

       Xtitle  is  known  to  work  with  xterm(1)  and  dtterm(1).  The effect of the control sequences in other terminals is not known, though I
       wouldn't expect any problems.

VERSION

       1.0.2

AUTHOR

       Steve Kinzler, kinzler@cs.indiana.edu, Nov 1993/Nov 1998/Mar 2000/Dec 2009

URL

       http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/xtitle/

SEE ALSO

       xterm(1), dtterm(1)

								       1.0.2								 XTITLE(1)
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