> 1) I'm running gnome-terminal as my xterm. The title on the > window simply says 'Terminal'. Is possible to have the > window title dynamically change to the current working > directory. Kinda like the way emacs changes the window title > to the name of the current file. If your running bash, check out the following. The overview is that in a regular VT you get the host and path on the CLI and whether the user is root. In a pseudo terminal the user name ('cause I'd like to know who is logged in at a glance) host and directory is in the titlebar. The command line is a clean, short line with only user identifier. That is really nice for long directory name or listing. Also there is a number after the host name to indicate which terminal you are on.
I found out how to do this by reading through the Linux Gazette. I suggest you do so too. A wealth of info to be had and it's packaged in Debian. If you want to figure out how this works, just read the Gazette. Put the following in your .bashrc scripts: SCREEN_NO=`/usr/bin/tty` #use grave accent (under tilde) if [ "$?PROMPT" ]; then if [ "$TERM" = "xterm-debian" ] || { "$TERM" = "xterm" ]; then SCREEN_NO="{$SCREEN_NO##/dev/pts/}" if [ `whoami` = "root" ]; then #use grave accent PS1='\033[;31;01m\$\033[m \[\033]2;[EMAIL PROTECTED]' else #^space in front of this backslash PS1='\033[;34;01m\$\033[m \[\033]2;[EMAIL PROTECTED]' fi else SCREEN_NO="{$SCREEN_NO##/dev/tty/}" if [ `whoami` = "root" ]; then #use grave accent PS1='\h$SCREEN_NO:\w\033[;31;01m\$\033[m ' #leave a space before end quote else PS1='\h$SCREEN_NO:\w\033[;34;01m\$\033[m ' fi fi fi export PS1 The above will do more than you asked for, but then that's what I have so...