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>6.4. Xterm Title Bars and Screen</H1
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>Non-screen users should skip this section. Of course, screen is an awesome
program and what you should really do is rush out and find out what screen
is - if you've read this far in the HOWTO, you're enough of a Command Line
Interface Junkie that you need to know.&#13;</P
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>If you use screen in Xterms and you want to manipulate the title bar, your
life may just have become a bit more complicated ... Screen can, but doesn't
automatically, treat the Xterm title bar as a hardstatus line (whatever
that means, but it's where we put our Xterm title). If you're a RedHat
user, you'll probably find the following line in your
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> termcapinfo xterm 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]2;screen\007'</PRE
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>If that line isn't in there, you should put it in. This allows the
titlebar manipulations in the previous section to work under Xterm. But I
found they failed when I used rxvt. I e-mailed a question about this to
the screen maintainers, and Michael Schroeder (one of those good people
labouring behind the scenes to make free Unix/Linux software as great as it
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>I don't know if this will work for other Xterm variants, but since the two
lines are functionally identical except for the name of the Xterm type,
perhaps ... I leave this as an exercise for the reader. It did fix my
problem, although I haven't researched further to see if it interferes with
the icon-titlebar naming distinction.&#13;</P
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