I got a '~' showing up as the Title of my Window

[Lee]

On 7/15/22, Kevin M. Wilson via Cygwin wrote:
>
> Greetings,    Well, I've gone and done something, and I don't know how to
> fix it...Please help!
> I start a terminal window on my windows machine, ssh'g to my Linux box. At
> the top lefthand corner of that window is a tilde, "~bash". The word
> disappears, leaving behind the 'tilde'. Plus, on the screen next to the
> prompt, a few seconds later...Another'tilde'. So...Suggestions?

it's your PS1 setting

man bash and search for PROMPTING

Regards,
Lee