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How to change the title of an xterm Ric Lister, ric@giccs.georgetown.edu v2.0, 27 October 2025 This document explains how to use escape sequences to dynamically change window and icon titles of an xterm. Examples are given for several shells, and the appendix gives escape sequences for some other terminal types. 1. Where to find this document 2. Static titles 3. Dynamic titles 3.1 xterm escape sequences 3.2 Printing the escape sequences 4. Examples for different shells 4.1 zsh 4.2 tcsh 4.3 bash 4.4 ksh 4.5 csh 5. Printing the current job name 5.1 zsh 5.2 Other shells 6. Appendix: escapes for other terminal types 6.1 IBM aixterm 6.2 SGI wsh, xwsh and winterm 6.3 Sun cmdtool and shelltool 6.4 CDE dtterm 6.5 HPterm 7. Appendix: examples in other languages 7.1 C 7.2 Perl 8. Credits

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