How to change the title of an xterm

Ric Lister, ric@giccs.georgetown.edu

1. Where to find this document

2. Static titles

3. Dynamic titles

• 3.1 xterm escape sequences
• 3.2 Printing the escape sequences

4. Examples for different shells

• 4.1 zsh
• 4.2 tcsh
• 4.3 bash
• 4.4 ksh
• 4.5 csh

5. Printing the current job name

• 5.1 zsh
• 5.2 Other shells

6. Appendix: escapes for other terminal types

• 6.1 IBM aixterm
• 6.2 SGI wsh, xwsh and winterm
• 6.3 Sun cmdtool and shelltool
• 6.4 CDE dtterm
• 6.5 HPterm

7. Appendix: examples in other languages

• 7.1 C
• 7.2 Perl

8. Credits