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How do I choose what shows up in PuTTY title bar from Linux?
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In the PuTTY configuration there's an option in Terminal → Features called Disable remote-controlled window title changing. Without that enabled, the title bar of PuTTY will change every time I press return in the console. I was thinking it'd be a more clean solution to set the title bar text from …
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The terminal title is set by using special escape sequences in the console output. By default, the bash prompt includes these escape sequences and sets the title to the current working directory. So you will have to edit your PS1 variable (most of t…
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