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[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Akkana Peck wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: xterm
>
> I used to be able to change the titlebar inside an xterm window with:
> echo 'ESC]2;New titleESC' (substitute ^V and the ESC key to insert
> escape characters; I used a shell alias).
>
> This no longer works, and does nothing; the title remains 'xterm'.
>
> After reading bug 408496, I've tried adding in .Xdefaults:
> XTerm*utf8Title: true
> XTerm*allowTitleOps: true
> but it doesn't help. I've also tried it with XTerm*utf8Title: false since I'm not really clear what that resource is supposed to do. (I'm sending plain ascii for the title, no extra UTF-8 characters, in any case.)

Perhaps that's because the Ubuntu package has

*utf8Title:     true

so the pattern is already occupied in the resource database.
To override it, you'd have to give a more-specific pattern,
e.g., using "." rather than "*".

(If it's not that simple, I'll dig deeper)


> The color prompt code in /root/.bashrc doesn't set the title either:
>    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
>
> Is there a new escape sequence for setting the prompt?

no - though there is also the allowTitleOps resource from 2007,
with the corresponding menu entry.  I don't think anyone's setting
that in a package.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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Can't set titlebar text with ESC sequence
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