Bug 448718

Summary: enhancement: leave my window title alone
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tom Horsley <horsley1953>
Component: xtermAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
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Description Tom Horsley 2008-05-28 13:03:51 UTC 
Since we seem to have a new xterm with an active maintainer, I thought I'd
just throw out this enhancement request:

It would be nice if there was a X resource I could set that tells xterm:
"You know those escape sequences programs can send to set the window title?
Well, ignore them utterly - leave my dadgum window title the way I set it."

I'm constantly irritated by this. I run xterm on lots of different systems,
and I give the windows meaningful titles when I create them. Having helpful
/etc/profile junk that changes my titles isn't helpful at all because I
can no longer find the meaningful names.

I suppress this as best I can in my own .profile, but sometimes I have to
su to other users and suddenly my title is screwed up again. It would be nice
to just load a resource setting into my server that would globally suppress
the title changing (at least once the new xterm percolated to all the systems
I use :-).
Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2008-05-28 13:30:34 UTC 
Already implemented, it's called allowTitleOps. ;-)
Comment 2 Tom Horsley 2008-05-28 13:39:05 UTC 
I swear I looked for that before :-). I must be blind. Thanks for the
pointer and sorry about the noise.