On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 10:44:02PM +0100, marc wrote:
> 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 ?

They have no effect.


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

Not sure how to use infocmp, but tput does not show up, and

  $ infocmp | grep mlterm
  #       Reconstructed via infocmp from file: 
  /usr/share/terminfo/m/mlterm
  mlterm|multi lingual terminal emulator,

Haines