Comments on: Mac OS X change the terminal window title

By: CeriDavies

CeriDavies — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:48:56 +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: CeriDavies

CeriDavies — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:33:59 +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 05:48:47 +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 17:46:04 +0000

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