NAME¶
xttitle - change X terminal emulator window titles
SYNOPSIS¶
xttitle title [ icon ]
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
xttitle command. This manual page
was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program
does not have a manual page.
xttitle is a program that changes the title (and possibly icon) of your X
terminal emulator windows. It should work for any program that emulates an
xterm-like terminal under X.
You may want to create an alias in your shell for 'cd', so that your window
title keeps track of your current working directory. In Bash, the following
seems to work for me:
update_title()
{
[ $TERM = 'xterm ] && xttitle "[$$] ${USER}@${HOSTNAME}:$PWD"
}
function cd()
{
builtin cd $*; update_title
}
You can then set up other things that run update_title - for instance you may
want to put it in your shell startup file so that the title gets updated when
you open a new terminal emulator window.
SEE ALSO¶
http://jarvis.com/xttitle/xttitle.html
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Dafydd Harries <daf@parnassus.ath.cx>, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).