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 -- 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