As I said in my earlier post, with XWin-4.2.0-20, xterm -T "my title" will set the xterm window title to "my title". With later versions, including XWin-4.2.0-28, xterm -T "any string" always produces the following window title:
Cygwin/XFree86 X rl The title on the root window entry at the bottom shows "Cygwin/XFree86 rl". Is this situation peculiar to me, or do others get these titles as well? Raymond Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote: XWin set window title when that window is shown, and never update. So -T option works, PROMPT_COMMAND doesn't work. Kensuke Matsuzaki