setting the title of a Cygnus window

[Chris Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:18:59PM -0400, J. Michael Hammond wrote:
>I was digging around in newsgroup archives for a way to set the title of a
>Cygnus window and tripped across a message you sent that indicates there's
>an escape sequence, either
>
><ESC>[2;new title^G
>
>or 
>
><ESC>]2;new title^G
>
>
>and, unfortunately, there isn't enough context there for me to figure out
>how/where/when to apply this sequence.  If I just try to type it in at the
>bash prompt on a cygwin, it doesn't work.  Do I use it in an environment
>variable somewhere?  In a bash script somehow?  Help?

You echo it to the console.  The second sequence is the correct one.

Please direct cygwin queries to the cygwin mailing list.

cgf

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