From: judd AT texcelus DOT com (Judd Rogers)
Subject: Gnu-win32 mailing list archives: Re: bash window banner
23 Aug 1997 09:13:04 -0700
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Is there a way, on winNT, to get bash to set the title/banner?

Like Tom (see note attached) I like to set the title to $PWD.

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<h1>Re: bash window banner</h1>
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In article &lt;33E375DA DOT 1895 AT worldnet DOT att DOT net&gt;,<br>
Tom  &lt;rdorgan AT worldnet DOT att DOT net&gt; wrote:<br>
<i>&gt;I notice that bash changes the window banner based on the last command</i><br>
<i>&gt;executed. I always configure my x windows to show hostname:pwd. It</i><br>
<i>&gt;allows me to leave my prompt very small as well as avoiding the nervous</i><br>
<i>&gt;pwd'ing I usually do with only a '$ ' for PS1.</i><br>
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<i>&gt;Is there any way to configure this in the current bash executable or </i><br>
<i>&gt;would it require a programming change?</i><br>
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Sergey's newer cygwin.dll's have an option (suggested by me *blush*)<br>
where setting the environment variable CYGWIN_NOTITLE causes the title<br>
to remain unchanged.  You might want to check that out.<br>
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