On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 at 8:22pm (-0500), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi, I just installed RedHat 7.0.  I had previously run 6.2.  I use xterm
> with the -T option a lot because
> it helps me find the window I want in my window list.
>
> On 6.2, it worked fine.  Now I find that no matter what my xterm's get
> $USER@$HOSTNAME: $PWD in the title bar and window list.
>

Its that xterm is ignoring so much as bash is over-writing it.  Look in your
/etc/bashrc file for lines like..

case $TERM in
   xterm*)
       PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
       ;;
   *)
       ;;
esac

... it annoys the hell out of me too. :)

M.

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