I'm trying to find a way to quickly change the title of a Gnome Terminal 2.32.1 window since I have quite a few open and I'm editing different files in each, using a compiler in one, tailing log files in others and so forth. Hence it's a pain looking for the window I want when they all say pax@pax-desktop:~
.
This question led me to try xtitle
but, for some reason it's not actually changing the title.
Executing xtitle xyzzy
results in no visible feedback but piping it through od
confirms it's outputting an escape sequence (which I'm assuming is correct, though I haven't checked in detail):
pax@pax-desktop:~/porn_dir$ xtitle xyzzy | od -xcb
0000000 5d1b 3b32 7978 7a7a 0779 5d1b 3b31 7978
033 ] 2 ; x y z z y a 033 ] 1 ; x y
033 135 062 073 170 171 172 172 171 007 033 135 061 073 170 171
0000020 7a7a 0779
z z y a
172 172 171 007
0000024
I can go into the menu Terminal | Set Title
and change it okay from there but I would much prefer a command-line solution since I can do it automatically (such as create a vi
alias which sets the title to vi filename
before running the editor and resets it on exit).
In the profile preferences, the initial title is set to Terminal
and the When terminal commands set their own titles
is set to Replace initial title
. There's also only the one profile Default
which is the one I'm using.