bash prompt, but for a terminal title

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woolsherpahat · Post by **woolsherpahat** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:49 am

You know how your bash prompt can do all kinds of cool things like show which directory you're currently in and what user's logged in? I was wondering if I could do the same for my urxvt terminal title. I figure all you'd need to do is set the terminal title agruement to a series of variables like, '$user@$host:@dir -- @current program', so it'd look like this.

loki@iBook:/home/loki -- ssh@router

I think you can do this but I just have no idea where to look first.

papal_authority · Post by **papal_authority** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:24 am

Something like this maybe?

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/usr/bin/perl -e 'print "\033]0;YOUR MESSAGE HERE\007";'

woolsherpahat · Post by **woolsherpahat** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:32 am

Sort of. I was hoping I could set the terminal title to be a variable, much like a bash prompt. That way the terminal title could reflect which command I was currently running and which computer I was logged in to.

KozmoNaut · Post by **KozmoNaut** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:57 am

I know I'm digging up an old thread, but I would absolutely love to have this as well...

Right now if I'm using screen and press CTRL+A" I get a list of my currently running shells withing screen. Unfortunately, they all just say "bash". Is it possible to have the currently running command placed there, and in the title of my term in X as well?