Xtitle is a relatively simple shell script program that, when run in an xterm or xterm-like window, will set the window's title and/or icon name to the script's arguments. See the included man page for full details.

Normally, I wouldn't think of packaging and distributing a tool this straightforward, but it snuck out into general usage anyway (thanks to the search engines, I suppose) and was well received. So here it is with a man page, Imakefile and all.

Xtitle may be installed either as a regular X11 program or manually in any desired locations, including your home directory.

1. AS AN X11 PROGRAM

   The usual routine

   xmkmf
   make install
   make install.man
   make clean

   should properly install the xtitle script in your X11 bin directory and the man page file in your X11 man directory.

2. MANUALLY

   You can copy the "xtitle.sh" file here into any directory in your PATH, probably named just "xtitle" then. Make sure the copy's made executable. The "xtitle.man" and/or "xtitle.html" man pages can be installed as/where you desire.

xtitle
Copyright © 1993-2000 Stephen B Kinzler

Unix Home Dir	http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/home.html Many scripts and config files for Unix/X11 environments
align	http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/align A text column alignment filter
vshnu	http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/vshnu A visual shell and CLI shell supplement
webrowse	http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/webrowse Tools to interface web browsers to the Unix user CLI
xtitle	http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/xtitle Set window title and icon name for an X11 terminal window
z	http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/z A convenience frontend for tar, gzip, zip, etc

Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler
November 2000