X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: From: "Lee Maschmeyer" To: References: <205934.59166.qm@web32007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4B465467.7050109@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: changing cygwin's console window title Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:59:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Using the console window, I keep the Cygwin window title the same as much as I can. It works pretty well (for the commands I happen to use) by setting notitle in the CYGWIN variable and putting these lines in .bashrc: settitle() { printf %s $'\033'"]2;$@"$'\007\033'"]1;$@"$'\007'; } export PROMPT_COMMAND='settitle "Cygwin Bash shell"' -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- 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