Re: New xterm title setting

[Ernst-Magne Vindal <ernst@vindal.com>]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Tong wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:43:53 -0400
> From: Tong <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>
> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: New xterm title setting
> Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:01:19 -0500 (CDT)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi,
>
> I used to set my own xterm titles, but after the recent upgrade, the
> title of my xterm and rxvt are changed to uid@host:/pwd.
>
> How can use back to my own? (I think some system files have been changed,
> I didn't do any relevant changes before and after the upgrade).
>
> thanks
>
>
>
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You can put this i .bashrc

if
#If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
    case $TERM in
    xterm*)
        PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
        ;;
    *)
        ;;
    esac
fi


/ernst-magne