$frame-title(5)

NAME

$frame-title - Frame title prefix
set-title - Set frame title prefix

SYNOPSIS

$frame-title "string"
set-title "title"

DESCRIPTION

On windowing systems, such as UNIX XTerm and Windows, the frame title is composed of the $frame-title followed by the current buffer. Setting the variable can be particularly useful when running MicroEmacs multiple times as an easy way to distinguish between each instance.

The read-session(3) command sets this variable to "MicroEmacs: <session-name>" so that if multiple instance of MicroEmacs are run with different sessions each can be easily identified.

set-title is a simple macro used to set the $frame-title variable.

NOTES

Unlike other frame variables, such as $frame-id(5), there is only one $frame-title value, changing its value will effect the titles of all external frames.

SEE ALSO

create-frame(2), read-session(3), $frame-id(5).

Ref: $frame-title(5) File: m5var015.5 Date: 2024/08/06

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