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The following is a rewrite of change gnome terminal title after some experimentation and exploration. Applicable to xterm*, rxvt*, GNOME Terminal, likely others.
problem
When I open a terminal window, the title is Terminal. When I ssh into another host, the title changes to me@somehost: mypath. When I close the session, the window title is still me@somehost: mypath.
first solution
Addresses the issue, not the cause, by changing the title back.
The remote host has a case "$TERM" in .bashrc setting the prompt to one that will change the terminal title. My .bashrc does not, either due to operator error, or perhaps a faulty gpg-agent package install script clobbered it. Copy /etc/skel/.bashrc to your $HOME. If you already have a .bashrc you want to keep, prepend the contents of /etc/skel/.bashrc.
This /etc/skel/.bashrc is found on Debian and Debian derived distributions. Your mileage may vary.
Here are the lines that set the title:
$ grep -A4 -B3 ]0 /etc/skel/.bashrc
# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac
note
You can’t have your cake and eat it too. If you set your .bashrc to change the title with every prompt, the title you set with the first solution will be overwritten by the next prompt, before you can see it.
you can have it both ways
Define a function in the current shell, so $PS1 in that shell can be accessed. $PS1 will reset the title without user action, once the title has been set.
$ cat ctt
ctt() {
# default
title=${*:-'\u@\h: \w'}
# save prompt part
prompt_part=${PS1##*'\a\]'}
PS1='\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}'${title}'\a\]'${prompt_part}
}
Add to your .bashrc, or test by copying and pasting the function at the prompt or pasting into a file and sourceing that file