How to change the title of an xterm

• Index
• Where to find this document
• Static titles
• Dynamic titles
• Examples for different shells
• Printing the current job name
• Appendix: escapes for other terminal types
• Appendix: examples in other languages
• Credits

2. Static titles

A static title may be set for any of the terminals xterm, color-xterm or rxvt, by using the -T and -n switches:

xterm -T "My XTerm's Title" -n "My XTerm's Icon Title"