xterm title not shown
Sam Edge
sam_edgeZZZ@hotmail.com
Wed May 15 14:25:00 GMT 2002
Alexander Gottwald wrote in
<Pine.LNX.4.21.0205151735180.21013-100000@rotuma.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Wed, 15 May 2002 17:37:16 +0200 (CEST):
> > The title of xterm defined with option -T or -title does not appear in
> > the title bar, instead the current directory is shown there. I do not
> > know whether this is a problem of xterm or the window manager, but it
> > happens both with twm and mwm.
> It seems like bash is setting the title. If you use tcsh, the title
> of the xterm is not changed. It seems the bash for linux does not have
> this behavior.
The default /etc/profile sets up PS1 with the xterm escape sequences
to put the username and current directory into the title. Either edit
/etc/profile or override it in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_rc.
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Sam Edge
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