On 31 July 2010 14:45, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: > The last problem is that the window title, for the "My documents/foobar" > directory becomes: > /cygdrive/d/Documents and settings/User_name/My documents/foobar > which iconifies to "/cygdrive/d/Docu...", the latter indication being > the same for all directories. > > I tried: > C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -t foobar -e /bin/env CHERE_INVOKING=1 > /bin/bash --login > > to get the "foobar" window title, but at the end the complete above > title comes back again.
The window title is changed to the working directory as part of the shell prompt, i.e. the PS1 variable, which is set in /etc/profile. It's the initial part of it that does it: \[\e]0;\w\a\] So you could change PS1 to something more to your liking in ~/.bash_profile. Alternatively, you could mount (part of) the "D:/Documents and settings/User_name/My documents/foobar" path to a shorter POSIX path in /etc/fstab or /etc/fstab.d/$USER. See http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table for details. You might also want to consider making it your official home directory, in which case it would be abbreviated to a tilde in the title. (This isn't mintty-specific of course.) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
