Set your xterm/konsole/other terminal title

[phong]

I put this in my /etc/profile:

[kaffee]

Zsh users can utilize precmd() to achieve the same. For example:

[buckminst]

It should be noted that some terminal emulators don't identify themselves as 'xterm'... case in point being aterm... you would need to modify the code thusly:

[itsr0y]

[barmaley]

This version will substitute user's home directory with a tilde:

[vbenares]

I recognize this thread is dead, but . . .

Is there any way to identify in the title bar whether one has su'ed or not?

[barmaley]

Of course! If you do 'su -', the version above will display root@host. However, if you do su without '-', it won't, because bash profile is not sourced and $USER contains the old value.

If it's not enought, you have at least the following two possibilities:
- insert `whoami` instead of ${USER}
- place a condition in your .bashrc and set custom PROMPT_COMMAND depending on the value of `whoami`, like this:

[vbenares]

This is totally cool.

[ed0n]

in gnome-terminal which I use is to easy and simple to change it , you can change it by change-ing the profile .
But sometimes I also use xterm and this looks cool

thank you phong

[shm]

with konsole, you can even set the name of the tab using dcop:
I use this:

[varnyu]

hi,

is there any solution for displaying the current running process in the titlebar using bash? (like emerge does)

thanks

[kernelcowboy]

Yeah, would like to hear the answer to this !BUMP! This is one old thread.

[Zentoo]

!bump 2!

I'm looking the way to do the same too ! I whish my script could update title for chroot environment to make the difference between chrooted environment and normal one.
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[shadeheim]

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