xtitle
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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. Also included is xtctl, a start at a more general interface to xterm control sequences.
Installation

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" and "xtctl.sh" files here into any directory in your PATH, probably named just "xtitle" and "xtctl" then. Make sure the copies are made executable. The "xtitle.man" and/or "xtitle.html" man pages can be installed as/where you desire.
GPL Copyright

xtitle
Copyright © 1993-2014 Stephen B Kinzler

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see the file "COPYING"); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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