Changing the title of an xterm, whilst it's running

[tom]

I'm trying to figure out how I can change the title of an existing xterm window.

I want to this because I often find I am working with at least half a dozen xterm windows in one session, all doing completely different things (ssh, ftp, emerge, man, etc.) However, it is easy to get in a mess when Alt-Tabbing between them, since the task switcher just lists their titles (which are normally the default "xterm"). This can make finding the right window again a slow and annoying process!

I usually use small shell scripts to start up things like ssh, so I was thinking if I knew how, I could simply add a line to change that xterm's title to reflect the fact that it's now running ssh. Hope that makes sense.

Anyway, this has been bugging me for AGES, so if someone could suggest something, it would be most appreciated!!

tom.

[while(1)]

this works in bash and will set the xterm title bar to the current directory (\w option):

[cytrox]

And for changing the title statically, like your 'ssh' in the title, have a look here http://cns.georgetown.edu/~ric/howto/Xterm-Title/.
so