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Re: Off Topic - putty, RH, debian, title changes upon login



On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:21:06PM -0500, William Jensen (jensenb@bodach.com) wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I found this little bit of trivia interesting but I cannot figure out how it
> is happening.  Under a friends RH box when I ssh into it from PuTTY it will
> change the titlebar to username@his.domain.com: /directory.  That's very cool,
> however, when I ssh into my debian box it just puts up domain.com -
> PuTTY.  Does anyone know why/how this is happening for the RH box or
> how I could enable this type of behavior for the Debian box?  It's
> rather handy to have a "short" PS1 and have the full path that your in
> reflected in the titlebar.  

Read the Bash-Prompt-HOWTO for info on how to do this.  I've posted my
own recipie to this list within the past week.



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