PUTTY obeys the same escape sequences as xterm does to change its window title, so if your window titles aren't changing already, you can get PUTTY to do so easily enough. Try this code in any of your PUTTY terminals:
Code:
printf "\033]0;asdf\007"
It should set your window title to asdf. You can put that code in your PS1 variable as shown here so it changes the title every single time your shell prompts you.
If printf from the prompt didn't work, that means your prompt is already changing your window title every single line, changing it back before you could see.
I have implemented the solution from mschwage located in post https://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-expert-users/35784-change-putty-title-window.html; ie
wt ()
{
echo -n "^2;${@}^G"
}
This method is awesome!!!!
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I still cant find step by step manual how to make my putty display let say PWD in its title, read about some xterm, but where it is?
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How to get all command output to Putty title?
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
xtitle
XTITLE(1) General Commands Manual XTITLE(1)NAME
xtitle - set window title and icon name for an X11 terminal window
SYNOPSIS
xtitle [ -tiq ] [ -- ] string ... | [ -V ] [ -h ]
DESCRIPTION
Xtitle will set the window title and/or the icon name of the terminal window in which it is run to be its command line arguments. It does
this by outputting the appropriate xterm(1) control sequence characters. Unless suppressed, xtitle will also report the settings it has
made.
OPTIONS -- Interprets all following arguments as strings instead of options.
-h, --help
Prints a helpful usage message.
-i, --icon
Only set the icon name. Default sets both.
-t, --title
Only set the window title. Default sets both.
-v, --verbose
Quiet mode. Doesn't report the settings performed.
-V, --version
Only prints the program version.
CAVEATS
Xtitle is known to work with xterm(1) and dtterm(1). The effect of the control sequences in other terminals is not known, though I
wouldn't expect any problems.
VERSION
1.0.2
AUTHOR
Steve Kinzler, kinzler@cs.indiana.edu, Nov 1993/Nov 1998/Mar 2000/Dec 2009
URL
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/xtitle/
SEE ALSO xterm(1), dtterm(1)
1.0.2 XTITLE(1)
01-09-2012
