Re: Gnome Terminal Suggestion/Question

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.990329173234.8204F-100000@quoll.daa.com.au>, James He
nstridge writes:
+-----
| To set the title for the xterm you use the following escape sequence
| (replacing \xxx with the equivalent character and _string_ with the
| desired value):
|   \033]2;_string_\077
| 
| If this is echoed to an xterm terminal, it will display the string in the
| title bar.  You could use this in your PS1 to display some information for
| instance.
| 
| Gnome-terminal doesn't support this yet (and it may break binary
| compatibility to add it -- maybe this should go on the list for 1.1).
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Are you sure of that?  I have a gnome-terminal running right now which has
the same titlebar status display my xterms have, changing dynamically as I do 
things which have wrappers to update the titlebar.

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