On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:04 PM, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:58:36PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:11 PM, John J. Foster >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I seem to remember ssh'ing into an old Gentoo box and having the window >> > title change to the currently executing command. For instance, when >> > emerging something that had 10 packages, the title would show something >> > like >> > >> > emerging (4 of 10) perl_something_or_other >> > >> > I'm not sure whether I was using screen at the time, or not. I'm not >> > even positive I was using Putty (I might have been on another 'nix). >> > >> > Can anyone help me out? >> >> I use PuTTY on Windows and the title updates as you described. I don't >> think I had to do anything special to accomplish it. >> > Thanks Paul, but mine doesn't do it anymore. I'm ssh'ing to 2 different > Gentoo boxes, one is a VM on my wifes XP box and the other is a just > rebuilt Gentoo workstation. Think this could have anything to do with > the Bash configuration?
Make sure you do not have "notitles" set in /etc/make.conf -- i think it disables the feature you're trying to get. I also think there may be .screenrc options to control this... in my /etc/screenrc i have: # special xterm hardstatus: use the window title. termcapinfo xterm 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]2;screen\007' Thanks, Paul