set terminal window title

a small tip.

some CLI-apps don't set their own window titles for some reason. the ones i found are irssi and rtorrent. this can be annoying, because my tint2 shows my window titles, and those titles are still the paths of the directories i was in when i launched these apps. in other words, i see 'rhowaldt@crunchbang: ~/.config' while in reality that terminal is running irssi, for example.

so, i set out to find a way to fix this, and i have. please note that this method will open a new terminal window, running the particular app you started. when you close the app, you also close the terminal.

terminator:

terminator -T "irssi" -e "irssi"

urxvt:

urxvt -title "rtorrent" -e "rtorrent"