Setting xterm title over ssh problems

[Phil Betts]

pgrodt wrote on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:59 PM::

> Forgive me if this is not really a cygwin question, I'm uncertain.  I

It isn't really, but...

> am spawning xterm instances while ssh fowarding a linux box to
> cygwin-xfree, and am unable to set the title of these windows.  I
> first tried calling xterm with the '-title' argument, which works for
> about a 10th of a second and then resets to $CWD.    

The fact that your title appears momentarily, before being changed 
suggests that either $PS1 or $PROMPT_COMMAND already includes a command
that sets the title.

Try setting PS1='\$ ' and unsetting PROMPT_COMMAND, then try again.


Phil

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