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Re: How to add a title to xterm
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 06:53:09 -0800
- Subject: Re: How to add a title to xterm
- References: <20051205144544.97203.qmail@web36201.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
PoWah Wong wrote:
> How to add a title to xterm?
>
> I start cygwinx by "startx".
> The following commands does not work:
> xterm -T columbia &
> xterm -title columbia &
> xterm -title "columbia" &
The default cygwin prompt contains escape characters that set the window
title to contain the CWD. Thus anything you set the title to will be
overwritten the next time a prompt is printed. You need to either
modify the prompt so that it doesn't try to set the window title, or
change the prompt to include the desired window title.
Brian
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