Comments on: Mac OS X change the terminal window title

By: moonpixel

moonpixel — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:47:05 +0000

nice, using it like this #!/usr/bin/env bash echo -n -e "33]0;$107" exit 0

By: Pedro Furlanetto

Pedro Furlanetto — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:36:00 +0000

I found this one to be the most convenient:

export PS1=”\$(echo -n -e ‘33]0;\W07′)\W \u $ “

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:57:12 +0000

Awesome. Perfect. Thanks!

By: Ivan Tumanov

Ivan Tumanov — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:31:00 +0000

This works in an interesting way –

export PS1=”$(echo -n -e “33]0;w07″)w $”

executes the echo command to set the tab title to w and then shows a regular w $ prompt.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:09:00 +0000

In bash, you can do this:

PS1=”33]0;H07h:W u$ ”

The PS1 prompt gets printed at every command (see ‘man bash’). Thus, the window title gets set at each display of the prompt — so if you log out of one shell, the prompt from the old shell is displayed and re-sets the window title.

This method also gets you all the bash prompt expansions (see ‘man bash’, search for PROMPTING), like H which expands to the full hostname and h which expands to the hostname up to the first . and so on.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:48:00 +0000

I put this in my .bashrc
echo -n -e “33]0;`hostname`07
Then on each tab as I log into a different machine (It has to have that line in the .bashrc of the user/machine I’m logging into) it sets the title as I log in to the machine, so all the tabs are correct.
And to recover on logout, I put this in the .bash_logout:

prev=`who am i | sed -e “s/.*((.*))/1/”`
if test ! x$prev = x
then
echo -n -e “33]0;$prev07″
fi

alias sett=”echo -n -e “33]0;`hostname`07″

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:33:00 +0000

Perfect, I put this in my .bashrc and the title changes on each tab as I login

echo -n -e “33]0;`hostname`07″

The only problem I have is that it doesn’t change back, when I get logged out, so I have an alias to reset it…

alias sett=”echo -n -e “33]0;`hostname`07″

By: luca

luca — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:48:00 +0000

Thanks, works like a charm. However, it doesn’t change the title of a tab, just that of the main windows in which many tabs are contained – so it’s useless to be able to see at a glance which terminal is the one you’re looking for.

By: des09

des09 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:46:00 +0000

How would you set the tab title when running multiple tabs?