debian man page for xttitle

XTTITLE(1x)															       XTTITLE(1x)

NAME
       xttitle - change X terminal emulator window titles

SYNOPSIS
       xttitle title [ icon ]

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual  page  documents  briefly the xttitle command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       xttitle is a program that changes the title (and possibly icon) of your X terminal emulator windows. It should work for	any  program  that
       emulates an xterm-like terminal under X.

       You  may  want to create an alias in your shell for 'cd', so that your window title keeps track of your current working directory. In Bash,
       the following seems to work for me:

	    update_title()
	    {
		 [ $TERM = 'xterm ] && xttitle "[$$] ${USER}@${HOSTNAME}:$PWD"
	    }

	    function cd()
	    {
		 builtin cd $*; update_title
	    }

       You can then set up other things that run update_title - for instance you may want to put it in your shell startup file so that	the  title
       gets updated when you open a new terminal emulator window.

SEE ALSO
       http://jarvis.com/xttitle/xttitle.html

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Dafydd Harries <daf@parnassus.ath.cx>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								  August  8, 2001						       XTTITLE(1x)