Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-return: allowed Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:17:20 -0400 From: "Zieg, Mark" Subject: RE: bash window title - can I add hostname to it? To: "'Francois de Campagnolle'" , "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Message-id: <7424935D9B6CD311B72800508B108FD20D1767C5@emss03m08.orl.lmco.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > > > to include hostname as well as the current directory it displays now. > > > > export PS1="\[\e]2;\h:\w\007\e[1;36m\]\h [\[\e[1;35m\]\w\[\e[1;36m\]] \u $ > > \[\e[1;33m\]" > > > > (Note that you need to have such a prompt on every computer you telnet to, > > as well -- they're the ones that send the ANSI sequences to your terminal > > client to set the title.) > > I suppose you can alias telnet, rsh and the likes to change title before > connecting to the remote box. If you did that, then the first time the remote box attempted to update the directory in the title (part of the user's existing functionality), then the hostname would be presumably overwritten. -- 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/