On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:30:58 -0700 (PDT)
m p <mzp3769_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> how display xterm name on the title bar and icon
> instead
> of user name and path,
> ie instead of
>
> USER on machine: /path
>
> get just xterm name.
>
> This used to work in twm with command
> xterm ... -n NAME -T NAME but not in fvwm2
This is probably a facet of how your shell handles the $PROMPT_COMMAND .
In my ~/.bashrc I have:
``
# If this is an xterm set the title to user_at_host:dir
case $TERM in
#xterm*)
# PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}_at_${HOSTNAME}:
${PWD}\007"' # ;;
*)
;;
esac
''
Change that as appropriate.
-- Thomas Adam
--
"Thomas is the kinda guy who'd happily write his own OS if it came to
it." -- Richard Gellman, via IRC.
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Received on Mon Aug 02 2004 - 16:40:31 BST