Re: changing bash window title

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz at sonic dot net>]

At 07:54 2003-06-17, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Sanjay Goel wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > the bash window has title Cygwin by default .. whenever I do a telnet or
> > lynx .. it changes the title .. how do I restore it again or change it to
> > something custom ..
> > TIA
> > Sanjay
>
> Sanjay,
>
> The default .bashrc has a commented out function "settitle()".  Just
> uncomment that line, restart bash, and you'll be able to run "settitle
> Your Title" (no quotes necessary).  The function works for the console
> window, xterm, and rxvt.
>
> If your .bashrc doesn't have that function, look in /etc/skel/.bashrc, or
> search this list for "settitle".  Note the control characters.
>
>     Igor


Igor,

Where do the contents of /etc/skel originate? I install everything 
available via Setup.exe, and my /etc/skel contains only ".bash_profile" 
which contains only this:

-==-
# ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash for login shells.

if [ -e /etc/bash.bashrc ] ; then
  source /etc/bash.bashrc
fi

if [ -e ~/.bashrc ] ; then
  source ~/.bashrc
fi
-==-


/etc/bash.bashrc contains only a comment and two blank lines.


Randall Schulz 


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