xterm titles

[Simon Santoro]

Fletcher Mattox wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How does one specify the title of an xterm?  As best I can tell, it
> always puts "$USER at HOST:$PWD" in the title bar, and ignores the -title
> and -name switches.

Because in .bashrc there is

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

Comment out those lines and you are all set.
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