Hi Brian, Patches gladly evaluated ;)
J. > > 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
