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How to change the title of the mintty window?
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MinTTY is the new default Console for Cygwin. What's a shell command (something I can put in .bashrc, or even better, in .zshrc) to change the title of the MinTTY window ? I'd like the title of the window to be the path to the current directory, and to have it updated as I switch directories inside…
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What is wrong The following command was not working for me: It turns out that my default Cygwin installation includes the following prompt definition in .bashrc: Note that the first part of the prompt ( ) is setting the windows title every time the …
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