[LUG] Changing title of xterm

[Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW

I normally have a few terminals (consoles) open all the time and invariably I get 
lost in seeing which window I should be working in as as whenever I tried to change 
the title of the xterm then $%%& thing would go back to the default. 

Anyway finally found out what was wrong:

In .bashrc I had the following command

# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
# case "$TERM" in
# xterm*|rxvt*)
#    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
#     ;;
# *)
#     ;;
# esac

Solution: commented out the above.

Now I can quickly change title: easiest I have found is with xtitle.sh 
(http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/xtitle/ )


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