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[Akkana Peck <akkzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First, yes, I was using a ^G in the original tests and not a second ESC
-- sorry, my typo there.

I just tried it in a vanilla Lucid in a vm, and now I'm even more confused. The standard user's .bashrc can change the titlebar, and here's what it does:
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
If I check by running script, this is echoing
^[]0;user@ubuntu: ~^Guser@ubuntu:~$
as I would expect.

However, if I try to do that myself with echo, it doesn't work:

echo '<ESC>]2;asdf^G'
(typing a ^V before I hit ESC and another one before ^G)

The titlebar doesn't change. I've tried with 0 and 2, with single quotes
and double, with bash, tcsh and zsh in case something had changed in the
way the shell echoes. No luck with any of them -- titlebar stays
unchanged.

Any idea what the difference is between doing this in a bash prompt vs.
typing echo in a shell? Typing echo used to work.

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Can't set titlebar text with ESC sequence
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678322
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