I know this is an old post, but wanted to bring it up. This works perfectly fine for putty....i have something like below that change my putty title when i do
ssh username@server name....
But now i have a question with regards to another tool...Putty connection manager or any other Tabbed style putty tool...the title dose not seems to change...is there anything special i need to do to get that changed for putty connection manager??
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Hello.
I am trying to figure out how to change the title of my console window. I don't need it to dynamically change with my current directory. I just want to be able to change the name of it, so when I minimize the window I can see which windows are for what purpose.
I've tried using the... (8 Replies)
Is it possible to change the title of a Terminal window on Solaris? For example, for a MS Windows command window, one can simply type "title NameofWindow" to change the title for a command window.
I was looking for similar functionality for terminal windows.
Thanks. (8 Replies)
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!!!!
The reason I am sending you this message is to get your assistance with... (3 Replies)
Is it possible to set the PuTTY title to show the current hostname of the terminal opened?
I meant to say I would be rlogin between servers, that should be updated in PuTTTY title ? :confused: (4 Replies)
I have a Perl script that changes the terminal window title and I would like to reset it to the original value when I am done. We are using Putty which emulates xterm. We are not running X-Windows so I can't use something like xprop (can I?). I'm using XTerm control codes to change the title and I... (2 Replies)
Once I type "mail" command, I got to see the mail like below:
> 1 daemon Thu Aug 12 17:31 31/938 "Output from cron job "
My question is, how to do change the default title "Output from cron job " to be more customized title?
Thanks. (4 Replies)
I have successfully used a script to modify putty's window title for many years. It has worked great in a Solaris 10 environment, using, sh, bash and tcsh. But I've never been able to get it to work in linux :(
The script relies on sending escape sequences via gnu echo. The version of echo on... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Last 2 weeks I have searched many forums and i haven't found the answer for the question:
How to get all command output to Putty title?
Needed it for other programs to know when some jobs on a server is done and is it done right or wrong. Plink stdout and stdin wasn't working, i used many... (1 Reply)
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hi,
how do we change the title of a thread after it is created?
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LEARN ABOUT V7
ssh-argv0
SSH-ARGV0(1) BSD General Commands Manual SSH-ARGV0(1)NAME
ssh-argv0 -- replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling
SYNOPSIS
hostname | user@hostname [-l login_name] [command]
hostname | user@hostname [-afgknqstvxACNTX1246] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-e escape_char] [-i identity_file] [-l login_name]
[-m mac_spec] [-o option] [-p port] [-F configfile] [-L port:host:hostport] [-R port:host:hostport] [-D port] [command]
DESCRIPTION
ssh-argv0 replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling. If you link to this script with a hostname then executing the link is
equivalent to having executed ssh with that hostname as an argument. All other arguments are passed to ssh and will be processed normally.
OPTIONS
See ssh(1).
FILES
See ssh(1).
AUTHORS
OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen. Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos,
Theo de Raadt and Dug Song removed many bugs, re-added newer features and created OpenSSH. Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0. Jonathan Amery wrote this ssh-argv0 script and the associated documentation.
SEE ALSO ssh(1)Debian Project September 7, 2001 Debian Project