Once you put one of the functions (eg, "wt") in your startup script (or put it in a file called "wt", or just enter it directly in your command line), you can do:
Code:
wt "Here is my NEW title"
and it will put "Here is my NEW title" in your putty window's title bar.
This makes it easy to do Fancy Shell Tricks like setting your window titlebar to be your hostname, pathname, username, silly joke, or whatever you want, dynamically.
I double checked using Putty 15 seconds... no 17... no 20... no 24... no, ...well, anyway, just now, and I can guarantee that it's more than doable. It's being done!
-Mschwage
P.S. If you do copy-n-paste my functions, make sure you turn ^[ into a real Escape character, and ^G into a real control-G character. Do that in vi by:
deleting the two characters
hit escape key
hit i (for insert mode)
hit Control-V keypair
Hit Escape key for ^[, or hit Control-G keypair for ^G
Hit the escape key again. Voila'! You've inserted a control-character.
Inserting a control character in your command line is left as an exercise for the reader.
Yes it is. See my posting Name of path - The UNIX Forums . See functions "wt" and "it". My example is for bash, but the functions are copied verbatim from my .kshrc file. So you can do it from bash or ksh.
Once you put one of the functions (eg, "wt") in your startup script (or put it in a file called "wt", or just enter it directly in your command line), you can do:
Code:
wt "Here is my NEW title"
and it will put "Here is my NEW title" in your putty window's title bar.
This makes it easy to do Fancy Shell Tricks like setting your window titlebar to be your hostname, pathname, username, silly joke, or whatever you want, dynamically.
I double checked using Putty 15 seconds... no 17... no 20... no 24... no, ...well, anyway, just now, and I can guarantee that it's more than doable. It's being done!
-Mschwage
P.S. If you do copy-n-paste my functions, make sure you turn ^[ into a real Escape character, and ^G into a real control-G character. Do that in vi by:
deleting the two characters
hit escape key
hit i (for insert mode)
hit Control-V keypair
Hit Escape key for ^[, or hit Control-G keypair for ^G
Hit the escape key again. Voila'! You've inserted a control-character.
Inserting a control character in your command line is left as an exercise for the reader.
I am new to this forum and hope I am placing this in the correct spot....
I have implemented the solution mschwage described in his post; ie
wt ()
{
echo -n "^[]2;${@}^G"
}
This method is awesome!!!!
The reason I am posting this message is to get your assistance with another issue I am runing into in respect to the window title.
This issue is - after putty'ng to system (A) the window title changes appropriately... While logged into system (A) I run "ssh user@B" via the command line. This now changes the title to system (B)'s name. So far everything works as expected, until I exit system (B). The result is the the window title still reflects system (B).
How do I get the window title to change back to system (A) on exiting system (B)? I'd like this to be automated.
Perhaps write another function, e.g. myssh, to run ssh (pass in parameters) and then call wt to reset the window title.
Thanks, this will work but I was looking for something that was more transparent to other users. The idea of SSH as an alias was mention by "Smiling Dragon". I think this would work but I'd have to test it out.
Hi,
Last 2 weeks I have searched many forums and i haven't found the answer for the question:
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Happy new year !
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I have implemented the solution from mschwage located in post https://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-expert-users/35784-change-putty-title-window.html; ie
wt ()
{
echo -n "^2;${@}^G"
}
This method is awesome!!!!
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03-02-2007
