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

[John J. Foster]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:58:36PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks Paul, but mine doesn't do it anymore. I'm ssh'ing to 2 different
Gentoo boxes, one is a VM on my wifes XP box and the other is a just
rebuilt Gentoo workstation. Think this could have anything to do with
the Bash configuration?

Thanks,
festus
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