diff --git a/IPython/frontend/wx/console_widget.py b/IPython/frontend/wx/console_widget.py
index 742f24a..251312c 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/wx/console_widget.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/wx/console_widget.py
@@ -196,9 +196,14 @@ class ConsoleWidget(editwindow.EditWindow):
         """ Write given text to buffer, while translating the ansi escape
             sequences.
         """
+        # XXX: do not put print statements in this method, the print
+        # statements will call this method, and you will end up with
+        # an infinit loop
         title = self.title_pat.split(text)
-        if len(title)>0:
-            self.title = title[-1]
+        if len(title)>1:
+            import sys
+            print >>sys.__stderr__, "title :", title
+            self.title = title[-2]
 
         text = self.title_pat.sub('', text)
         segments = self.color_pat.split(text)
diff --git a/IPython/frontend/wx/wx_frontend.py b/IPython/frontend/wx/wx_frontend.py
index 0af67d1..c5577c4 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/wx/wx_frontend.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/wx/wx_frontend.py
@@ -241,6 +241,15 @@ class WxController(PrefilterFrontEnd, ConsoleWidget):
             ConsoleWidget._on_key_up(self, event, skip=skip)
 
 
+    def _set_title(self, title):
+            return self.Parent.SetTitle(title)
+
+    def _get_title(self):
+            return self.Parent.GetTitle()
+
+    title = property(_get_title, _set_title)
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     class MainWindow(wx.Frame):
         def __init__(self, parent, id, title):