Re: How to change an xterm title on the fly

Of course one could push it further and make the xterm title display the current path. Actually this is no perl code but I really don't see the need for perl here.

# The Prompt
unset PROMPT_COMMAND
case $TERM in
    xterm*)
        TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;\h:\w\007\]'
        ;;
    *)
        TITLEBAR=''
        ;;
esac
PS1="${TITLEBAR}\u@\[\033[1;34m\]\h\[\033[0m\]:\W> "
export PS1 PS2
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(to put into your ~/.bashrc - yeah, we're really OT here ;-)

Regards... Stefan

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Re: Re: How to change an xterm title on the fly by suaveant (Parson) on Oct 22, 2001 at 18:45 UTC
Well... my real purpose was to show the basics of how to change it for perl (since this is PerlMonks :) I leave it up to the user to decide what they want to do with it. I was using it to put the current song from my mp3 jukebox script in the title... - Ant - Some of my best work - (1 2 3)	[reply]

Regards...	Stefan
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