Is this possible at all? (basically a pendant to cmd.exe's title command that Mikel's answer mentions, although I'd prefer changing the entire tab name instead of adding a window title)
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In bash, the standard Xterm sequences documented at How to change the title of an xterm seem to work, e.g.
echo -e "\033]0;custom title\007"; cat
So try adding that to your PS1 in your .bashrc or whichever config file you use, e.g:
PS1="\033]0;\$PWD\007$PS1"
or use PROMPT_COMMAND instead if you are using bash.
In cmd.exe, you can use title <string> to set the title.
You would chain it together using a doskey alias like this:
doskey cd=title $1 ^&^& cd $1
Then set it to load for every new cmd using the instructions in
Loading DOSKEY Automatically with CMD.
In both cases, to show only the window title, go to Settings->Appearance and tick the
Use console window title* box.
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I'm afraid `title` is a built-in of cmd.exe, so bash claims `bash: title: command not found` :( but it works for cmd.exe, so +1 – Tobias Kienzler Jan 20 '11 at 12:41
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thanks for the update - wow, doskey's still around? Hm, I'd probably first of all `doskey alias=doske` – Tobias Kienzler Jan 20 '11 at 12:51
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Yes, my original answer was only for `cmd`. I have updated it with instructions for `bash`. – Mikel Jan 20 '11 at 12:58
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your current solution won't change the working directory, using `PS1='\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007'$PS1` instead does the trick – Tobias Kienzler Jan 20 '11 at 13:17
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Sorry, yes, there was a missing backslash. It is fixed now. – Mikel Jan 20 '11 at 13:18
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@Tobias: fwiw, these days `doskey` is just a thin wrapper around Console API. – u1686_grawity Jan 20 '11 at 14:09
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Been a while, but the only post that mostly answered my problem
Building on the answer from Mikel and the comment from Tobias, adding
PS1='\[\033]2;\u:\w\007\]'$PS1
to ~/.bashrc allowed consoleZ (successor to console2) to show the shell title in the consoleZ tab, and not mess up line wrapping in the shell.
"Note the use of \[...\], which tells bash to ignore the non-printing control characters when calculating the width of the prompt. Otherwise line editing commands get confused while placing the cursor."
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Xterm-Title.html#ss4.3
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