xterm title not setable

[Brian Dessent]

David Strozzi wrote:

> I'm running a pretty new cygwin installation (started from scratch about
> a month ago) and can't get the title of an xterm window to be anything
> other than the current directory.  I'm running on win XP.  I start the
> cygwin X server, and get an xterm.  I then launch new xterm windows with
> "xterm -title foo", "xterm -T foo", "xterm -name foo", "xterm -e
> some-command", and always, the window's title, both in the window title
> bar and on the windows taskbar at the screen bottom, is always the
> current dir.  It seems I sometimes see another title briefly flash on
> the title bar, only to succumb to the awesome might of pwd...

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-12/msg00010.html

Brian

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