xtitle(1)

Usage

xtitle {[-tiq] [--] string ... | [-V] [-h]}

Overview

Xtitle will set the window title and/or the icon name of the terminal window in which it is run to be its command line arguments. It does this by outputting the appropriate xterm(1) control sequence characters. Unless suppressed, xtitle will also report the settings it has made.

Options

-t, --title: Only set the window title. Default sets both.

-i, --icon: Only set the icon name. Default sets both.

-q, --quiet: Quiet mode. Doesn't report the settings performed.

-V, --version: Only prints the program version.

-h, --help: Prints a helpful usage message.

--: Interprets all following arguments as strings instead of options.

Caveats

Xtitle is known to work with xterm(1) and dtterm(1). The effect of the control sequences in other terminals is not known, though I wouldn't expect any problems.

Version

1.0.4

URL

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/xtitle/

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 2 times.

--quiet since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -q since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

--verbose until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -v until Debian 11 (Bullseye).