How to change the title of the mintty window?

Question

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 the console.

Answer 1

Place this in .zshrc:

# Change title of MinTTY to current dir
function settitle() {
    echo -ne "\033]2;"$1"\007"
}
function chpwd() {
    settitle $(cygpath -m `pwd`)
}

The sequence of special characters in function settitle makes MinTTY change the title of the window.

In zsh, if you define a function with the special name chpwd, it will be invoked after each chdir.

Works on WinXP, with Cygwin 1.7 and MinTTY running zsh.

Answer 2

In bash, the variable PROMPT_COMMAND can be set to hold a number of commands, seperated by semicolons. you can use that to do the same title setting as described in the other response that talks about zsh.