my shell function "title()" has

      echo -n "\033]0;$1\007"

which seems to do its thing for mlterm as well as xfce4-terminal and xterm, and
probably other.

Ralph.

marc wrote on 11/11/19 8:44 am:
> Hello
>
> I am under the impression that some xterminal emulators
> understand a certain escape sequence (maybe tsl ?) which
> update the title bar.
>
> What does
>

>    tput hsl

>
> and
>

>    tput tsl ; echo -n hello ; tput fsl

>
> do ? Maybe that escape sequence has been removed
> from your terminfo entry ? Use infocmp to check
> on a working system...
>
> regards
>
> marc
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