Window Title in Bash

Here is a nice function to do it:

# Allow the user to set the title.
function title {
   PROMPT_COMMAND="echo -ne \"\033]0;$1 (on $HOSTNAME)\007\""
}

Put that in your ~/.bashrc, then type "title whatever" to set the title. If you want to get rid of the hostname, remove "(on $HOSTNAME)".

Edit: make sure to . ~/.bashrc (aka source ~/.bashrc) before trying, of course.

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