Changing the terminal title bar with Python

[dickey at his.com]

On Friday, October 18, 2013 12:46:19 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> xterms used to have a feature where they would write the title back to 
> standard input. Unfortunately, it has been disabled for security reasons, 
> so I haven't been able to get this to work (not that I tried very 
> hard...), but you might like to experiment with this:

Actually in "xterm" it is configurable (the allowWindowOps resource).
xterm "emulators" lack that (and most of xterm's) configurability.

> More recent xterms allegedly implement a title stack, where you can tell 
> the terminal to save the current title, then restore it afterwards. 
> Again, I haven't been able to get this to work, but have fun 
> experimenting with it:

http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log-contents.html#xterm_251

It is used in "newer" screen, and vi-like-emacs.