Window title option

The -title option allows you to specify a text string as the title of a client's window. If your client has a title bar or if the window manager puts title bars on windows, this string appears in the title bar.

Window titles can be useful in distinguishing multiple instances of the same application. For example, if you use two scoterm windows, one of which is run on a remote host machine, you can set the title of the scoterm window so it indicates the name of the host machine on which it is running. You would enter the following:

scoterm -display hostname:display_number -title "`uname -n`" &