changing cygwin's console window title

[Thomas Wolff]

Collin Monahan wrote:
> I noticed Lynx kept changing my window title. According to the source code it was a call to SetConsoleTitle, part of the Windows API. ...
> Then I created a version of the program to compile under GCC. ...
> These may not be appropriate to use with an xterm window.
>   

Indeed. I'd recommend to use the escape sequence (as used by the other 
responder in .bashrc) also from a program so it'll work in xterm and 
mintty, too.
ESC]2;title^G
In cygwin console and mintty, you can use UTF-8 text (or whatever 
charset your terminal runs in) in the title string of this control 
sequence. With xterm, non-ASCII title handling is more tricky and 
depends on proper configuration.

Thomas

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