As seen here http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg01263.html He mention this command
echo -e '\E]0;blah\a' However I think he meant to lowercase "E" echo -e '\e]0;blah\a' Either way, these commands are no longer changing the window title. Note that PS1='\e]0;blah\a' Still works $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Steven-PC 1.7.29(0.272/5/3) 2014-04-07 13:46 x86_64 Cygwin -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple