display directory in terminal tab

[rawlins02]

Trying enable the display of current directory at top of terminal in each open tab. Something like:

~/Documents

Have installed xtitle package. At command line:

> xtitle Test

works. I've seen some post which talk about placing commands in .bashrc. I use tcsh, so thinking .cshrc. What is the setting to get directory to show each time I change directory or open a new tab?

[cortman]

This (http://askubuntu.com/questions/22413/how-to-change-gnome-terminal-title) might be of help.

[rawlins02]

This (http://askubuntu.com/questions/22413/how-to-change-gnome-terminal-title) might be of help.

Looks like the simple way is to edit the default profile.

Terminal -> Edit -> Title and Command

in the Initial Tile field. A colleague who uses another window system just had success by placing "%D" in that field. That doesn't work for GNOME. Still looking, as I'm unable to translate the bash commands in that tutorial into tcsh style.

[cortman]

Well, here's a post (http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/21383/showing-current-directory-in-terminals-title-using-tcsh) on doing it with tcsh- I dont' use tcsh so I can't say if it'll work or not- it's for OSX...

[rawlins02]

I chopped out the echo and sed commands from

alias cwdcmd 'printf "\033]1;%s\007\033]2;%s\007" "$cwd:t" "$HOST echo $cwd | sed s-$HOME-~-" '

and placed in .cshrc. When I do a cd command I'm getting the computer name. Want something like:

~/Documents

which is /home/smith/Documents