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Old 05-24-2011
Directory name in terminal title

I would like to have the directory I am currently in being shown in the title when I open a terminal window in Fedora (selecting "Open in terminal" or using the Terminal from the panel).

Any way that I can do this?

Basically whenever I do "cd", the title should update

I have created this alias to understand what I mean

Code:
alias cd 'cd \!*; set prompt = "<$cwd>"'

---------- Post updated at 09:08 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:12 AM ----------

I tried using the alias below but does not always work.

Code:
alias cd 'cd \!*; echo -n "\033]0;$cwd\007" '

Using the command below works, but I am trying to use $cwd instead of plum, but is not working.

Code:
wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -N "plum"


Last edited by kristinu; 05-24-2011 at 11:40 AM..
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Old 05-26-2011
Just put '$PWD', quoted for delayed evaluation, somewhere appropriate in "export PS1= . . . ." in your .profile or .bashrc or whatever.
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