How to make terminal "title" to be set dynamically to pwd

Christian Dywan christian at twotoasts.de
Wed Sep 14 10:37:14 CEST 2011


Am 14.09.2011 09:34, schrieb François Colonna:
> I did not find out how to make any terminal "title" to be set
> dynamically to the result of pwd command.

Hey François,

you can solve that in bash for example like this:

PS1="\[\e]0;\w$hostname\a\]$PS1"

I suggest you read up on setting the prompt for your favourite command 
interpreter, this is not specific to Xfce.

ciao,
     Christian


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