This message is more for just getting into the archives to help any newbies like me in
the future. I was trying to set the title of my cygwin and rxvt windows and was not
having any luck. I followed the instructions to echo something like:
echo -e "\033]2;New Title\007"
but it never seemed to work. It would only show the default cygwin title of the
current path (/cygdrive/c/...). I was trying everything I could think of, then I
changed PS1 to be something different and I could now set the title. It turns out the
default PS1 in cygwin/etc/profile sets PS1 to include "\033]0;\w\007". That string is
the terminal code to set the title. So anytime I did something to set the title, the
evaulation of PS1 would overwrite it. So anyone having a problem setting the title
should look at their PS1 variable.
(In case anyone doesn't know, PS1 is the shell environment variable which controls
what your command prompt looks like.)
Also, I saw references to use the settitle function found in the default bashrc
(cygwin/etc/defaults/etc/skel). That didn't work because the characters in the
function are exactly:
echo -n "^[]2;[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
Where the ^ are actual carat characters. That is, ^[ are the two characters 'carat'
and '[' as opposed to the single character ESC. The same with ^G.
-Brian
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