It may be useful to write a small program to print an argument to
the title using the xterm
escapes. Some examples are provided
below.
#include <stdio.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
printf("%c]0;%s%c", '\033', argv[1], '\007');
return(0);
}
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "\033]0;@ARGV\007";