On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 04:52:22PM +0000, James wrote > So, as a old fart, I got tired of KDE and never really liked gnome. > I have found new life in LXDE; spartan, but learning and document > how things work on gentoo, is hopefully something I have to only > do once.
I went all the way to ICEWM; see my sig. > I have my lxde/openbox environment mostly setup. One thing I miss > is feature rich tabbed terminal session. On my old rig, > the tabs where customizable to show current dir or rename manually. > When I would "ssh" into a remote system, the IP address was prominently > displayed in the tab header; essential for managing tons of remote > devices. In your bash profile (if you use bash), howsabout export PS1='[\h][\u][\w]' Actually, I go for a fancy "technicolour prompt" export PS1='[\[\033[01;32m\]\h\[\033[00m\]][\[\033[01;34m\]\u\[\033[00m\]][\[\033[01;36m\]\w\[\033[00m\]] ' Either way, the host name shows up at the beginning of the prompt. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
