no it switches to $username@$host $PWD, which is pretty useful anyway...
but it would be fun to switch it up now and again...
d$
> 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
