Set window title

Set window title

[Martin Jerabek]

Hi!

Just a quickie: how do I set the caption of a cygwin console window (not
using X) just as lynx does? I assume it is some kind of escape sequence,
right?

TIA
Jerry

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Re: Set window title

[Peter Buckley]

This question showed up just last week IIRC. But I flushed my 
buffer of cygwin messages, so you might have to search the archives 
with google if you don't have them on your email client. It was a 
person asking about titles for an RXVT window, or maybe just a 
bash window- but there was a good response with the correct set 
of escape characters and quoting.

HTH,
Peter

Martin Jerabek wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Just a quickie: how do I set the caption of a cygwin console window (not
> using X) just as lynx does? I assume it is some kind of escape sequence,
> right?
> 
> TIA
> Jerry
> 
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Re: Set window title

[Martin Jerabek]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:49:47PM -0400, Peter Buckley wrote:
> This question showed up just last week IIRC.

Thanks for the pointer. I really must take the time to browse through
the archive. The answer seems to be "<ESC>];TEXTHERE^G". I do not want
to boot Windows just to try it but it looks sensible to me.

Thanks
Jerry

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Re: Set window title

[Matthew O. Persico]

Martin Jerabek wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:49:47PM -0400, Peter Buckley wrote:
> 
>>This question showed up just last week IIRC.
>>
> 


I put/found this in my /etc/profile file. The first line is for the 
terminal. The rest is for the prompt, with colors.


if [ -z $DISPLAY ]
then
  export PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007
\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
[\#]$ '
else
  export PS1='\u@\h \w
[\#]$ '
fi
cd "$HOME"



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