Change title of xterm

sohnir · 12-12-2005, 03:05 PM

Hi-
I installed 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4. Previously on RedHat AS I've had my xterms dynamically change the title of xterms in the past as follows:
echo "\033]0;`hostname`\007"
Somehow, on this freeware it does not work.
Any help would be appreicated.
I would like to have my xterm titled as "oracle@SERVER"
Thanks,
-Vipul

Ha1f · 12-12-2005, 05:46 PM

um i dont know if this will help, but ill give it a shot.

obviously you want to change your hostname, so why not just try

hostname SERVER

also, if your running Gnome, you can change this in teh network setup menu.

i had this problem, but 'hostname XXXXX' never really worked for me, so i reinstalled and set my hostname during the install.

sohnir · 12-13-2005, 06:41 AM

No, I do not want to change the hostname of my system. I want the TITLE of the xterm to be changed based on the linux system that I am logged in. As I mentioned, on all my other RedHat AS; the echo "\033]0;`hostname`\007" works. This would change the title to "username@HOST" as my xterm TITLE. I am using SSH to connect the remote linux systems.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

wrj · 12-13-2005, 11:40 AM

Adding something like this in your .bashrc file should do it.

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;oracle@${HOSTNAME}\007"'