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From: Sam Edge <sam_edgeZZZ AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: xterm title not shown
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 21:41:14 +0100
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Alexander Gottwald wrote in
<Pine DOT LNX DOT 4 DOT 21 DOT 0205151735180 DOT 21013-100000 AT rotuma DOT informatik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
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

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