Apart from the single-quotes (which I'm not exactly sure of), the variable PS1 has not been exported. The changes would otherwise not last beyond the current shell.

HTH.

It doesn't matter (as far as I can test) if I use single or double quotes...

However, it appears as if I was somewhat incorrect when I said that the dcop option didn't do what I wanted to do... [insert slightly embarrassed smiley here] It does change the title to "whatever_I_want - Konsole".

So my problem is solved. Thanks for your help everyone. The question remains though, why I can't adjust PS1 (to adjust the Konsole title) in a script. I've tried all your suggestions, but can't get it to work...

Thanks,
/TLV

PS1 is set to a specific string every time you open a shell.
If you set PS1 in a script, and then a new shell is opened from that script, ~/.bashrc will be reread, changing the PS1 back to whatever is in ~/.bashrc. The only way I know to can change it from another script is to pass a variable with "export", and have the PS1 variable in ~/.bashrc set up to accept the exported variable. If PS1 isn't specified in ~/.bashrc the variable will be read from the global bashrc file.

You might be able to export PS1 from a script and put PS1="$PS1" in ~/.bashrc to prevent the global bashrc PS1 variable from being read. I haven't tested it, but I guess it might work.

Hmm, that makes sense. I was just wondering 'cos I never got the export part to work. But, there may have been other processes at work (e.g., PROMP_COMMAND) that made things not work as planned. For now I don't really have the time to dig deeper into shell-programming.

Thanks for the help.

/TLV