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Re: Issue with the titlebar
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:14:58 -0400
- Subject: Re: Issue with the titlebar
- References: <20090812155808.311470@gmx.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:58:08PM +0200, Kilian Krockauer wrote:
>Hello there,
>
>I have quite a disturbing task my colleque gave to me.
>He uses CygWin and has up to 10 Windows opened, now he's getting tired
>of looking through every single Window when he searches for a specific
>one. To be exact, he uses ssh to connect to our servers and wants the
>titlebar to show which server that specific window is logged on to. Is
>that even possible? I've gone through the web and found nothing
>helpful. I know that you can let the titlebar show a process name, the
>full path and i guess even the Hostname, because it is a variable, but
>everything i tried did not show the Hostname of the server he logs on
>to.
>
>I would apreciate a rather quick help or response
You should be able to change the title bar in rxvt or (under cygwin)
by just printing an escape sequence:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/xterm-title-bar-manipulations.html
cgf
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