[comp.windows.x] xterm window naming

howcome@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Hakon W Lie) (01/07/90)

After making R4 (sun3,cc) and fixing some minor problems, there is
still one left. The escape sequence to rename xterm windows does not
seem to work. Has anyone else had this problem or ist it just to RTFM.

-hakon (howcome@media-lab.media.mit.edu)

jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (01/09/90)

Hmm, the following works fine here:

	echo "^[]2;newname^G"

where ^[ is escape and ^G is Control-g.  What are you trying to do?

howcome@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Hakon W Lie) (01/09/90)

	Hmm, the following works fine here:
	
		echo "^[]2;newname^G"
	
	where ^[ is escape and ^G is Control-g.  What are you trying to do?
	
R3 xterm renaming accepted any non-digit character instead of the
semicolon and any non-printing character instead of the ^G. According
to "clients/xterm/ctlseq2.txt" which came with R4 this is accepted.
However, as several people have pointed out, R4 requires the exact
syntax you described above.

-hakon

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