Re: Gnome-Terminal : smallf feature request

[Joakim Ziegler <joakim styx net>]

On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 01:19:49AM -0500, Tim Hockin wrote:

> Lastly, if I could tell the title bar to be `pwd` or '$_' or something.
> basically, a title that reflected the current path and/or file open:

> e.g. "/usr/src/linux:  vi kernel/sched.c"  would be infinately more helpful
> than "Terminal"

> I'd hack it in myself, but I don't know GTK well enough, or really have the
> time to learn right now.  Maybe I will, but if someone beats me there,
> great!  The first two should be easy - the third a bit less so.

You can do this with an ANSI escape sequence on most terminals (including
xterm, rxvt, screen, and miscellaneous Windows terminals). Try something like:

if [ id -gn = root ]
then
  case "$TERM" in
	      *linux*)
				          declare
PS1="\[\033[1;31m\][\[\033[0;37m\]\u@\h:\w\[\033[1;31m\]]\[\03
3[0;37m\] "
          ;;
					      *)
								          declare
PS1="\[\033[1;31m\][\[\033[0;37m\]\w\[\033[1;31m\]]\[\033[0;37
m\033]0;\u@\h: \w\007\] "
          ;;
					  esac
						else
						  case "$TERM" in 
							      *linux*)
										          declare
PS1="\[\033[1;32m\][\[\033[0;37m\]\u@\h:\w\[\033[1;32m\]]\[\03
3[0;37m\] "
          ;;
					      *)
								          declare
PS1="\[\033[1;32m\][\[\033[0;37m\]\w\[\033[1;32m\]]\[\033[0;37
m\033]0;\u@\h: \w\007\] "
          ;;
					  esac
						fi

(The long lines should be rejoined, I'm sure you'll manage.)
In your /etc/profile to get color-coded prompts which put useful information
in the terminal titlebars. I've never understood why distributions don't do
this kind of thing by default.

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