Posted by yaarg on Wed 2 Mar 2005 at 05:11
You've probably come across the problem in which you have several xterms open in your window manager - and you can't tell which is which when they are out of view!
To counter this problem, I have several scripts in my ~/bin like music, irc etc that basically set the title of the xterm (using xtermset -title and runs the corresponding app.
It's a little thing that I've found has made a huge difference in usability of my computer,..
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