Bug 14729

Summary: "xterm -name MyName" is over written under RH6.2, not RH6.1
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <mak>
Component: xterm-colorAssignee: Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Description Need Real Name 2000-07-27 14:05:16 UTC 
When using ...

[mak@host]$ xterm -version 
XFree86 3.3.3.1b(88b)

and issuing the command "xterm -name AnyName" the resulting xterm title bar
will momentarily show the desired name only to be overwritten with
"mak@host:/home/mak".  This problem started with RH6.2.  Under RH6.1 using
the same version of xterm, the xterm command operates as expected.
Comment 1 Vlado Potisk 2000-08-13 19:41:18 UTC 
I had similar or maybe the same problem. Inside /etc/bashrc
there is an escape sequence sent to xterm causing it to change
its name. Try to comment out that line, it helped in my case.
Comment 2 Preston Brown 2000-08-30 20:13:32 UTC 
yes, we consider this a feature rather than a bug.  If you comment the following
lines of /etc/bashrc:

case $TERM in
        xterm*)
            PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
            ;;
        *)
            ;;
    esac

You will have your old behaviour back.