xterm title

[neoworld]

I would like to change my xterm title by a bash script when putting the title name as the argument of the script.

Can someone send me such script?

[serz]

Why don't you just use:

xterm -title "this is a title for xterm"

or easier:

xterm -T "this is a title for xterm"

[neoworld]

I mean I would like to change the title dynamically. For example, when I open the xterm to write a doc, I would like to mark the title as "writing". After doing that, when I coding in that xterm, I would like to mark it as "coding" or other names.

So, a bash with an argument would be good.

[tweakmy]

I m also having the same trouble here.

xterm -title is also equivalent to xterm -name

but i would like to know if by chance you could change the name/title of the current xterm instead of creating a new xterm

[ah_lam]

Here is the solution:
Ah Lam's Note: Change the title of xterm

[smolloy]

I tried putting this inside a shell script, but it didn't affect the contents of $PROMPT_COMMAND outside the script (therefore the xterm title didn't change). How can I rewrite the script to force it to change the xterm title permanently?