On 2/12/11 2:53 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> An old thread but I found a way around this by adding a line to my bashrc:
>
> echo -ne "\033]0; `whoami` @ `hostname` \007"
>
> The reference
> http://mdinh.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/xterm-title-bar/
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Chet Ramey <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> On 11/25/10 3:38 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> > I was using this as my ps1
> > PS1='[\u@\[\e[1;31m\]\h\[\e[0m\]:$PWD]\$ '
That works.
> > But I wanted to label the title of my xterm windows with the hostname of
> > system Im logged into. So I added the following
> > PS1='[\u@\[\e[1;45m\]\h\[\e[0m\] $PWD]\e]2;@ \H\a\$ '
The portion immediately after the $PWD is probably going to be invisible
and cause you problems.
Chet
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