Terminal window hostname always showing
Jon TURNEY
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Thu Apr 30 10:58:00 GMT 2015
On 25/04/2015 09:23, AC wrote:
> Is it possible to turn off the automatic hostname that the window
> manager is adding to terminal windows?
Yes, use the X server option -nohostintitle.
> Right now, on any machine I log into, they all use escape sequences to
> set the title of the window. However, the window manager (not sure
> which I have, looks like xorg-server) on the Cygwin system is adding a
> hostname to the title.
>
> I'm using the bash escape sequence "\u@\h: \w" which is supposed to give
> me the user and the short name of the host (minus the domain) and the
> path. However, all my terminals on the Cygwin system end up like this:
>
> user@host: ~ @host.example.com
Thanks for pointing out this issue.
> If I change the escape sequence on the remote machine to use the full
> hostname, the result on the Cygwin system is:
>
> user@host.example.com: ~
>
> It seems to me that the window manager is interpreting the data in the
> escape sequence and opting to put a hostname on the title if it can't
> find one that matches the connection.
Almost. When -hostintitle is enabled, the WM adds the contents of
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE to the window title, unless it already seems to be there.
I've tried to tweak this heuristic a bit in X server 1.17.1-3 so that
if WM_CLIENT_MACHINE contains something that looks like a FQDN, it only
looks for the hostname part, not the whole thing.
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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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