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Is there any way to change the text in the title bar of a terminal window?

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Is there any way to change the text in the title bar of a terminal window?

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There is no way of changing the title bar of a Terminal.app window in 2.x; in 3.x there is. Check Preferences (Title Bar): set CustomTitle, type in the title, and hit CR (or Set Window) and voila! [From: andre@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Andre Roberge)] Actually, there is a way to change the title bar of a Terminal window in 2.x (at least in 2.1 which is what I am using). It is somewhat limited but it might be useful to some. The trick is to make a symbolic link between /bin/csh (or whichever shell one wishes to use) and a file in / named “Whatever_you_want_to_appear_in_the_title_bar”. Then select this new “shell” in the terminal preference and, voila!, you’ll have your terminal window with /Whatever_you….. in the title bar. You can edit Stuart’s titlebar interactively from the “Window…” Inspector (Command-3). Stuart provides emulation of certain Operating System Command (OSC) sequences which can be used to modify the titlebar under subprocess control.

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There is no way of changing the title bar of a Terminal.app window in 2.x; in 3.x there is. Check Preferences (Title Bar): set CustomTitle, type in the title, and hit CR (or Set Window) and voila! [From: andre@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Andre Roberge)] Actually, there is a way to change the title bar of a Terminal window in 2.x (at least in 2.1 which is what I am using). It is somewhat limited but it might be useful to some. The trick is to make a symbolic link between /bin/csh (or whichever shell one wishes to use) and a file in / named “Whatever_you_want_to_appear_in_the_title_bar”. Then select this new “shell” in the terminal preference and, voila!, you’ll have your terminal window with /Whatever_you….. in the title bar. You can edit Stuart’s titlebar interactively from the “Window…” Inspector (Command-3). Stuart provides emulation of certain Operating System Command (OSC) sequences which can be used to modify the titlebar under subprocess control. Stuart can change the title of t

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