OT: X terminal question

[wolfgang]

on FreeBSD (with bash as my login shell), X terminal windows do not show my 
$USER@$HOSTNAME in the titlebar. when i start Eterm with Eterm -T 
"$USER@$HOSTNAME", they show in the titlebar, but not on the xfce taskbar 
button. when i log in to a remote (redhat linux) host via ssh in one of those 
terminals, the remote $USER@$HOSTNAME show plus the xfce taskbar button also 
changes and shows them. when i quit ssh, the remote info stays in the 
titlebar and xfce taskbar button although i am not logged in remotely 
anymore.

i assume i need to set some environment variables for the local info to also 
show. would anyone know how to achieve that?

regards,
wolfgang aka ^wolf^