Title bar of X apps, no host name?

[Timothy Madden]

On 24.10.2010 04:59, Jerry Cloe wrote:
> When I start individual windows between two linux boxes I always get the
> host name in the title bar of the window.
>
> For example from my desktop linux box:
>
> ssh -X jerry@prodserver
> then
> gedit&
>
> The title bar of the resulting gedit window will be along the lines of:
> "gedit (on prodserver.host.com)"
>
> But, when I do this from my windows/cygwin desktop, the title bar is simply
> "gedit" without the host name.
>
> On the linux side, I've never done anything to set this up or make it work,
> it just always worked, so I'm not even sure where to begin looking.
>
> Any ideas?

Does anyone know how to change the window title to include the hostname 
please ?

Connecting to 4 machines (with *ssh -Y*) and starting the *gvim* on all 
of them can be really frustrating when you have no indication what 
machine each instance is running on.

Thank you,
Timothy Madden


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