remote hostname in terminal title bar?

[henksmets]

Does anyone knows how I can put the hostname of the remote host in the terminals title bar? Or change the color of the terminal background?

I often connect to more than one remote server an i would be very handy to see immediatly wich terminal window is connected to wich server.

 

[fddi1]

shift-cmd-t to set the title in a terminal window

 

[henksmets]

thanks a lot both

now i get the hostname in the titlebar, but, it doesn't changes when I login onto a remote server.

I can get the proper server in the titlebar when using the New Command in the File menu, but i rather do it from the CL

nice intro BTW: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx/chapter/ch04.html

 

[lanceo]

Henksmets,

Do get this to work when logging into a remote server, you need to add that same prompt to the .cshrc or .tcshrc file in your home directory on that remote server. Then it will work.

 

[jpblock]

If you're using bash for a shell now that it ships with Jag, add the following lines to ~/.bash_profile and it will update your Terminal title bar, in addition to your shell prompt.

# add me to ~/.bash_profile
# start here
PS1='[\u@\h:\w]\$ '
export TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w \007\]'

# Terminal sets TERM_PROGRAM so we can tell it apart from regular VT100
case "$TERM_PROGRAM" in
"Apple_Terminal")PS1="$TITLEBAR$PS1"
esac
case "$TERM" in
"xterm")PS1="$TITLEBAR$PS1"
esac
# end insert

I've been using variants of this on other unixes for many years, and unfortunately lost track of the original author.

jpb