My apologies for the mistake... thanks for the help.
DC
"Gregory J. Barlow" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Derek Cunningham wrote:
>
> - deletia
> > OK. Here's what happens:
> >
> > When i do something like "rxvt -title "BitchX"", the window loads, and I
> > see "BitchX" in the titlebar for like .5 seconds, and then it changes
> > back to "user@host:/current/directory". So WTF?
> - deletia
> > I actually think this is very ontopic, because OBVIOSLY the
> > windowmanager (in this case: blackbox) is changing things.
>
> This is not the window manager, but the shell you are using. In Red Hat,
> if you are running xterm/rxvt/etc. bash sets PROMPT_COMMAND so that you
> get [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is quite useful for most people. If you dont like
> it, you can get rid of it (/etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc) on your own. I
> cannot say whether other distros do this by default, I don't use other
> distros. But its generally a very useful thing, especially if you want
> you to keep your prompt sane.
>
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