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Re: Mac OS X change the terminal window title

Ivan Tumanov — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:31:52 -0000

This works in an interesting way -

export PS1="\$(echo -n -e \"\033]0;\w\007\")\w $"

executes the echo command to set the tab title to \w and then shows a regular \w $ prompt.

Re: Mac OS X change the terminal window title

CeriDavies — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:48:56 -0000

I put this in my .bashrc
echo -n -e "\033]0;`hostname`\007
Then on each tab as I log into a different machine (It has to have that line in the .bashrc of the user/machine I'm logging into) it sets the title as I log in to the machine, so all the tabs are correct.
And to recover on logout, I put this in the .bash_logout:

prev=`who am i | sed -e "s/.*($.*$)/\1/"`
if test ! x$prev = x
then
echo -n -e "\033]0;$prev\007"
fi

alias sett="echo -n -e "\033]0;`hostname`\007"

Re: Mac OS X change the terminal window title

CeriDavies — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:33:59 -0000

Perfect, I put this in my .bashrc and the title changes on each tab as I login

echo -n -e "\033]0;`hostname`\007"

The only problem I have is that it doesn't change back, when I get logged out, so I have an alias to reset it...

alias sett="echo -n -e "\033]0;`hostname`\007"

Re: Mac OS X change the terminal window title

luca — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:48:47 -0000

Thanks, works like a charm. However, it doesn't change the title of a tab, just that of the main windows in which many tabs are contained - so it's useless to be able to see at a glance which terminal is the one you're looking for.

Re: Mac OS X change the terminal window title

des09 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:46:04 -0000

How would you set the tab title when running multiple tabs?