Setting the terminal title with urxvt and tcsh
Generally I use ssh
from an urxvt
terminal window running tceh
to
log into other machines. But since the title of all my urxvt
windows
defaults to “Shell”, it can get confusing.
To set the terminal windows’ title, I use the following command from the shell running in the terminal;
printf "\033]2;${HOST}\007"
This sets both the window title to the content of the $HOST
environment variable.
If you use a window manager that can iconify windows, you should start the
command with \033]0;
instead. That will change both the window title and
the icon name.
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