With X-Windows, one can independently set the titles of the terminal window and the window's icon.
to set window title: ESC ] 2 ; <title> ^G to set icon title: ESC ] 1 ; <title> ^G Analogously, it would be nice if Mintty would allow me to independently set the titles of the window and the associated taskbar button. I set my window title to $PWD, but this is typically too long for the taskbar button, so I'd like to be able to separately set it to ${PWD##*/}. --Ken Nellis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple