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xterm title after quittin ssh sessions

Hello, I have Slack10.1 with fluxbox0.9.13. I use xterm and when I logon via ssh to a remote machine the xterm title becomes the user and the host of that machine, but when I exit the ssh session, the xterm title remains. I want the normal title of xterm before the ssh session.

Anyone can't help?

It seems that the remote site that you connect to sets your xterm title. You can set it with something like:

Code:

echo -ne "\033];xterm\007"'

or you could add something like:

Code:

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033];xterm\007"'

to your /etc/profile (or your ~/.bash_profile) file on your local machine. PROMPT_COMMAND allows some nice tricks too if you like. I have:

Code:

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033];Terminal (`temp=$(tty) ; echo ${temp:5}`) - `pwd`\007"'

in my /etc/profile. This sets the titlebar to show the line of the terminal and the current working directory, so what I normally see is something like: Terminal (pts/n) - /home/myusername

Using PROMPT_COMMAND also ensures that the titlebar gets automatically reset when you exit ssh because it gets run every time that bash displays your prompt.