Re: xterm not accepting Window Title name changes

["Mark J. Reed" <markjreed at mail dot com>]

Somewhat OT, but don't you need -e on the echo command to get it to
interpret the backslash escapes?  Or is that only needed for the
non-numeric ones?


On 10/23/07, Paul McFerrin <pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I can't seem to get xterm to recognize Window Title name changes via the
> following:
>
>     echo "\0332;new_title\07\c"
>
> I have added the following new lines to my .Xdefaults file with no effect.
>
>     XTerm.AllowTitleOps:    true
>     XTerm.AllowTitleOps:     true
>     XTerm.allowTitleOps:     true
>     XTerm.allowWindowOps:    true
>     XTerm.AllowWindowOps:    true
>     XTerm.vt100.AllowTitleOps:      true
>     XTerm.vt100.AllowTitleOps:       true
>     XTerm.vt100.allowTitleOps:       true
>     XTerm.vt100.allowWindowOps:      true
>     XTerm.vt100.AllowWindowOps:      true
>     VT100.AllowTitleOps:     true
>     VT100.allowTitleOps:     true
>     VT100.allowWindowOps:    true
>     VT100.AllowWindowOps:    true
>     XTerm.vt100.utf8Title:   true
>     VT100.AllowTitleOps:    true
>
> and I have modified my "startxwin.sh script to start xterm the following
> way:
>
>     xterm -aw -b 5 +cm -rw -sb -sk  -sl 1500 -rv -e /usr/bin/ksh -l &
>
> I thought it was working yesterday, but at this point I can't remember
> very much!  Yesterday, I only had the:
>
>        XTerm.AllowTitleOps:    true
>
> line in .Xdefaults and I thought it was working....
>
> What am I doing wrong??
>
>
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