Re: Gnome-Terminal : smallf feature request

[Warren Young <tangent cyberport com>]

James Henstridge wrote:
> 
> Changing the title to your cwd is not too difficult, and does not require
> any GTK+ programming.  Gnome-terminal understands the standard xterm title
> changing escape sequence.  So for bash, you might want to set your prompt
> to this:
>   PS1="\[\033]0;\u@\h: \w\007\]$PS1"
> 
> That will put user, host and directory in the title, and preserve your
> normal prompt.

I use the following, which comes from a recent Linux Journal on-line
article.  Put it in ~/.bashrc:

function setpromptstring {
    case $TERM in
        xterm*)
            local TITLEBAR="\[\e]0;\u@\h \w\007\]"
            ;;
        *)
            local TITLEBAR=""
            ;;
    esac
    PS1="${TITLEBAR}[\u@\h \W]\$ "
}
setpromptstring

It's a bit more complicated than what James suggests, but it has a few
advantages.  First, it's not as compact, so you can see the individual
pieces working.  Second, it uses the entire path for the window caption,
but a shortened path for the prompt string.  Third, it also works when
you're logged into a text-only screen, like the console, or a telnet
session; James' solution will trash your prompt string in those
situations.

The article I mention can be found at http://linuxjournal.com/issue64.

Enjoy,
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