* David T-G
... % Interestingly enough, I do not see any value for $_t or ${_t} in my % shell, but $PS1 includes lovely escape sequences :-(
Putting these two together was enough. I found where _t was set a few different ways based on term type a bit above that, and that was where the escape sequences came in.
Rather than muck about with the /etc files, to lose them in an upgrade, I tried resetting PS1 in my .bashrc, and it was indeed soon enough to avoid mucking up my titlebar. Yay!
You may also create /etc/bash.bashrc.local to make changes w/o changing the default configuration files. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org