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1 | .TH xtitle 1 "29 March 2012" "Mark Wooding" "Toys" |
| 2 | .SH NAME | |
| 3 | xtitle \- set or read an xterm title string | |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 5 | .B xtitle | |
| 6 | .RB [ \-q ] | |
| 7 | .br | |
| 8 | .B xtitle | |
| 9 | .I string | |
| 10 | \&... | |
| 11 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 12 | The | |
| 13 | .B xtitle | |
| 14 | program sets or reads the title string of an | |
| 15 | .BR xterm (1) | |
| 16 | or compatible terminal emulator. | |
| 17 | .PP | |
| 18 | Without | |
| 19 | .BR \-q , | |
| 20 | concatenate the | |
| 21 | .IR string s | |
| 22 | provided on the command line | |
| 23 | with spaces between them, | |
| 24 | and set the result as the title string. | |
| 25 | .PP | |
| 26 | With | |
| 27 | .BR \-q , | |
| 28 | read the current title and | |
| 29 | write it to standard output | |
| 30 | followed by a newline. | |
| 31 | .PP | |
| 32 | If standard input is a terminal then | |
| 33 | .B xtitle | |
| 34 | will use it | |
| 35 | (writing to file descriptor 0!); | |
| 36 | otherwise it will open | |
| 37 | .B /dev/tty | |
| 38 | and use that. | |
| 39 | .SH BUGS | |
| 40 | .B xtitle | |
| 41 | makes no attempt to determine whether its terminal is in fact | |
| 42 | .B xterm | |
| 43 | or something compatible. | |
| 44 | .PP | |
| 45 | In | |
| 46 | .B \-q | |
| 47 | mode, | |
| 48 | if the terminal doesn't understand the necessary control sequence, | |
| 49 | or the feature has been disabled for (quite sensible) security reasons, | |
| 50 | then | |
| 51 | .B xtitle | |
| 52 | will wait forever for the title string to appear. | |
| 53 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 54 | Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk> |