On Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:50 pm, Bovy, Stephen J wrote:
> I am having great fun with xterm on IBM z/OS
> but I can't seem to get bash prompt title changing
> to work.
>
> Here is my prompt string:
>
> if "$TERM" == "cygwin" || "$TERM" == "xterm" || \
> "$TERM" == "vt102" || "$TERM" == "vt100" ; then
> export PS1="\[\e]0;\h \@ [\W]\a\e[34;42m\][\w]\[\e[0m\]\n\$ "
This string works fine for me in konsole and xterm. Have you tried with
several different terminals?
Also, have you verified that the PS1= line ever executes? It looks to me like
you forgot to use [ (or test):
if [ "$TERM" == ... ]; then ...; fi
You also don't appear to have a matching fi.
One way to check is to directly type (or paste) the PS1= line at the prompt.
Another way: put a debugging echo statement in your if.
For the record, here's my prompt code. :^)
export
PS1='\[\e[1;[EMAIL PROTECTED]|\[\e[34m\]\w\[\e[30m\]]\[\e[35m\]\$\[\e[0m\]
'
(all one line, with one space preceding the final ')
This prompt I always want. Then below, I make the check and if using a
supported xterm, append to the PS1.
case ${TERM} in wterm*|xterm*) export PS1=${PS1}'\[\e]0;ducks: \w\a' ;; esac
(using bash; otherwise change ${...} with $...)
I do a few other things in the case statement, like stty erase ^? to fix some
problems with wterm (which I use on computers where I don't have KDE).
--
Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/
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