How to customize Terminal Tabs

Question

I am a long time iTerm user. I was able to configure the Window Title and tab with the following in my .bashrc file:
PS1=$'\[\033]2;\u::$PWD\[\007\]\[\033]1;$(basename $(dirname $PWD))/\W\[\007\]$ '
I am have run into several issues with the latest iTerm and Leopard Spaces - most notably if I open a few tabs, going back to the space with iTerm in progressively spins the wheel longer and longer until I have to restart iTerm.
So I would like to use Terminal and it's new tab feature but I haven't been able to program the text in each tab like I could in iTerm. I am not sure how showing 'bash' in each tab is useful. The above bash script would put the full path in the Window Title and a partial path (2 folders) in the tab.
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi!
Googleing for some "bash xterm title bar setting", I found some stuff (in italian..) and I made some tests....
BTW this works!
PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ \033]2;${USER}@$(hostname):${PWD}[\007]'
This sets first your local promt to "username@serrvername:localdir", then sets the Terminal Title bar to "USER@Hostname:PWD"
As usual it may slightly change, depending to the bash you're running.
Marco