Setting terminal title

[zzzonked]

What do you need this for? If the whole point for this just is that you want a custom title on all of them you could just edit the launcher for gnome-terminal.

It seems no one understands what I'm looking for If I don't do this, then I have 15 terminal tabs open and all of them are titled "user@computer: [current directory]", which is stupid and completely useless when I need to find the right one. I want to launch firefox in one tab and rename that tab to "firefox"; launch emacs in another tab and rename that one to "emacs"; etc. Is this clear enough?

[jpkotta]

Put this in your ~/.bashrc (or use the echo line in a script).

function set_terminal_title()
{
    echo -ne "\033]0;$1\007"
}

Then you can set the title to whatever you want.

set_terminal_title "hello, world."

I like to do

PROMPT_COMMAND='set_terminal_title "[${USER}@${HOSTNAME}][${PWD/$HOME/~}] "'

[tbodine88]

Put this in your ~/.bashrc (or use the echo line in a script).

function set_terminal_title()
{
    echo -ne "\033]0;$1\007"
}

Then you can set the title to whatever you want.

set_terminal_title "hello, world."

I like to do

PROMPT_COMMAND='set_terminal_title "[${USER}@${HOSTNAME}][${PWD/$HOME/~}] "'

This doesn't work on either Suse nor Unbuntu ub1104. It sort of works on Windows Command prompt, but the Command proccessor sets the title back. on Windows there is the "title" command to do this.

The above code does work for xterms, but not Gnome Terminal.

Regards Tom Bodine

[cyber-monk]

I think what your looking for is the xtitle command. I can confirm this works on the gnome terminal under Ubuntu 10.04. You can install it using:

$> sudo apt-get install xtitle

Once you have xtitle installed you can simply type:

$> xtitle your-new-title-here

The man page is online here:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/.../xtitle.1.html

[Zill]

It seems no one understands what I'm looking for If I don't do this, then I have 15 terminal tabs open and all of them are titled "user@computer: [current directory]", which is stupid and completely useless when I need to find the right one. I want to launch firefox in one tab and rename that tab to "firefox"; launch emacs in another tab and rename that one to "emacs"; etc. Is this clear enough?

Do you really open 15 graphical apps (such as Firefox) from the terminal? I understand the need to do this while debugging etc but, as a matter of routine, surely this is not necessary. Just open them with a launcher in the usual way - fire and forget.