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 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:09:32 -0600 From: Gregory Borota Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Vidar Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Window title by shortcut In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Something like this should do it: 1. add in cygwin.bat (or a copy of it), before bash command: set __TYTLE__=%~1 2. in your .bash_profile add: if [ "$__TYTLE__" ]; then PS1="\[\033]0;\$__TYTLE__\007"' \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ ' fi 3. Create o shortcut with something like this in the target box: C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat "Your Title" If I understood you right, this should solve you problem. Greg On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Vidar wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to find a method for making it so that if I launch a specific shortcut to cygwin > it will have a title of my choosing, and keep it (not change to the current path and such). > I've searched the archive but all I could find were some procedures including lots of escape > characters, which I think would make it diffcult to set the title for this shortcut only (I > also don't know how to input the escape chars =/ --> newbie here). > > - Vidar > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/