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).

                                                 August  8, 2001                                      XTTITLE(1)