gnome-terminal question

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Mon Sep 28 00:35:49 UTC 2009


On 09-09-27 19:19:48, Richard England wrote:
> On 09/27/2009 02:09 PM, bruce wrote:
> > hey...
> >
> > trying to solve an issue on changing the title of the current
> > gnome-terminal session.
> >
> > how does one go about changing the title of the current
> > gnome-terminal via the cmdline...
> >
> > i'm trying to figure out if you can use escape sequences, or
> > modifying the profile for the terminal.
> >
> > trying some of the escape sequences from different web sites 
> > haven't worked...
> >
> > thoughts/comments/pointers appreciated...
> >
> > i'm running fedora 9
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
> >    
> Have you investigated
> 
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterm-Title.html
> 
> What have you tried?  If you post your trials, someone may spot a 
> problem or we may be able to test it.

I think the problem is that PROMPT_COMMAND is setting it each command, 
after you set it.  Either unset PROMPT_COMMAND or change it to do what 
you want.

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