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

[Paul Hartman]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:04 PM, John J. Foster
<Gentoo-User@××××××××××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
> 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?

Make sure you do not have "notitles" set in /etc/make.conf -- i think
it disables the feature you're trying to get.

I also think there may be .screenrc options to control this... in my
/etc/screenrc i have:

# special xterm hardstatus: use the window title.
  termcapinfo xterm 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]2;screen\007'

Thanks,
Paul