You can change your PROMPT_COMMAND environment variable which in FC3 is set to PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\007"' To change this you will need to use the export command. Typing 'man export' will give you all the BASH builtin commands so I've included the relevant export list below: export [-fn] [name[=word]] ... export -p The supplied names are marked for automatic export to the envi- ronment of subsequently executed commands. If the -f option is given, the names refer to functions. If no names are given, or if the -p option is supplied, a list of all names that are exported in this shell is printed. The -n option causes the export property to be removed from each name. If a variable name is followed by =word, the value of the variable is set to word. export returns an exit status of 0 unless an invalid option is encountered, one of the names is not a valid shell variable name, or -f is supplied with a name that is not a function. Hope this helps. Oliver