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RE: xterm title not shown
- From: "Cary Jamison" <Cary dot Jamison at powerquest dot com>
- To: "Cygwin/X list (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 14:17:32 -0600
- Subject: RE: xterm title not shown
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Gottwald
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:37 AM
>
> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Hans Werner Strube wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> bye
> ago
> --
> Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
> http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
>
What is your shell prompt set to? It is a common trick to make the shell prompt or a cd alias include the escape sequence to put the current directory in the title. Perhaps this is the default for bash? I wouldn't think so, but this would happen after the title is initially set with -T or -title.
Cary
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