hm... that's strange, what version of gnome are you running? It just
switches back to 'Terminal'?
-Lkb
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, [iso-8859-1] daniel j shahin wrote:
> it only seems to work for a split second and then gnome (or something)
> resets it. What am I doing wrong?
>
> d$
>
> > works for gnome-terminal too. lots of you probably know this, but i
> > just figured it out today. in your .bash_profile or .bashrc or
> > whatever:
> >
> > title() {
> > printf "\033]0;$*\007"
> > }
> >
> > then just use the command 'title newtitle' and your xterm or
> > gnome-terminal window title will change to newtitle.
> >
> > or if you don't run bash, you could just create a script called title,
> > and put it in your path:
> >
> > --title.sh
> > #!/bin/sh
> > printf "\033]0;$*\007"
> >
> > --title.sh
> >
> >
> > -Lkb
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