Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: Sam Edge To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: xterm title not shown Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 21:41:14 +0100 Organization: . Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Message-ID: References: <200205151448.QAA07002@r2d2.physik3.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g4FKgSL15542 Alexander Gottwald wrote in 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. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/