Re: [gentoo-user] Setting Putty window title to currently executing command

[Paul Hartman]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:11 PM, John J. Foster
<Gentoo-User@××××××××××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
> I seem to remember ssh'ing into an old Gentoo box and having the window
> title change to the currently executing command. For instance, when
> emerging something that had 10 packages, the title would show something
> like
>
> emerging (4 of 10) perl_something_or_other
>
> I'm not sure whether I was using screen at the time, or not. I'm not
> even positive I was using Putty (I might have been on another 'nix).
>
> Can anyone help me out?

I use PuTTY on Windows and the title updates as you described. I don't
think I had to do anything special to accomplish it.

Paul