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PROGRAM:

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.

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