use Perl

• Xterm? (Score:2, Interesting)

  by kasei (2524)

  I believe (and may be way off on this) that it's a feature of the xterm protocol. If not, I too would love to know how this occurs.
• Play with this: (Score:2, Interesting)

  by Robrt (1414)

  if [ ${TERM} = "xterm" ]; then
      /usr/bin/printf "\033]1;$* \007"
      /usr/bin/printf "\033]2;$* \007"
  fi
  
  (but, your shell is probably doing this already, possibly in a pre-command hook.)
  • Re:Play with this: (Score:3, Interesting)

    by pudge (1)

    Aha! It was doing:

    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\007"'

    Neat little trick. Thanks, that rules.
    
    • Re:Play with this: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by blech (1597)

      Yes, the Terminal in Panther uses xterm title escapes. I noticed it a few weeks ago while a friend was logged into a work machine (which all have the appropriate trickery in a bash config file somewhere), and was wondering how long it would take for folks to notice it.
      
      I'm not sure if you can override it using the Terminal window inspector to set a custom title, as I don't have Panther yet. I'd hope so. (Otherwise, I suppose you could edit the config files wherever you needed to, but that's a bit tedious.)
• GUI settings. (Score:1)

  by Louis_Wu (2993)

  There is also an easy GUI way of changing the Terminal title bar.

  1. Go to Window Settings... in the Terminal menu, it's right below Preferences.
  2. Pick the Window item in the menu at the top of the Terminal Inspector window which appears.
  3. Play with the nifty options.

  I have it set to display the active process name, the window size (104x57 characters is half of my screen, and is a handy size for reading man pages), and the shortcut command key for that window. You can also enable the tty name, the .term s