Re: hostname in title of gnome-terminal



Hello,
Thanks.
In which script do you put this  ?
Regards,
 John


On 10/16/06, Magnus Therning <magnus therning org> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:31:20 +0200, John Que wrote:
>Hello,
>I have gnome-terminal-2.14.0-1 on FC5.
>Is there a way to configure it so that the hostname will be the title
>of an opened tab?
>
>I of course know about the "Set title" menu, but my question is : can
>it be done automatically so when I ssh to some machine , the title will
>be it's hostname (you can assume that I have the remote machine
>hostname before ssh into it).

I usually let my shell do that for me:

 bash:
  case $TERM in
  (xterm*)
        PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}($(id -ng))@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
  ;;
  esac

 zsh:
  case $TERM in
  (xterm*)
        function precmd () { print -Pn "\e]0;%n($(id -ng))@%m:%~\a" }
  ;;
  esac

/M

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