[Lancaster] perl script to change your xterm title

[Richard Robinson]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:27:27PM +0000, Andy Baxter wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 2:57 pm, you wrote:
> > > Do I get the 'sad linux geek' badge and t-shirt?
> >
> > I'd say so ... that's neat, thanks.
> >
> > What's going on here, are these the old ANSI control characters ?
> 
> This is the relevant bit from man xterm:
> 
>  Many of the special xterm features may be  modified  under
>        program  control through a set of escape sequences differ­
>        ent from the standard VT102 escape  sequences.   (See  the
>        Xterm Control Sequences document.)
> 
> (so they're not VT102 in fact, but specific to xterm) Then i found 
> /usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.txt.gz which documents all the control sequences 
> xterm recognises...


Ah, yes. I found
zcat /usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.ps.gz | gv - &
rather easier to read.

Cheers

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem