Update terminal title

If tabTitle is not set, the visible title is set to the profile's name. Note that this decouples the shell's title from the visible title presented on the tab.

If you read the shell's variable where the title is set, it may differ from the tab's title. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info.

Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Note Though Ubuntu and Debian both run bash, they have different behaviors. If you use the escape sequence that terminals use to update their titles, your problem should be solved. I have used that before, so I know it is possible. I have posted the full contents for completeness but the relevant bit to starts on the Display command Some of the old methods were removed from gnome-terminal 3.

Bash identifies this sequence and set the tile with the following characters. Number 0 turns out to be the value to reference the title property. Save and close. How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow.

Learn more. Bash - Update terminal title by running a second command Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 10 months ago. Active 3 months ago. Viewed 17k times. Improve this question. Neo Neo Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. First of all: Which environment variable would contain the current 'command'? Improve this answer.

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Thanks a ton. Here is a link by Dennis from the other question that deals with the exact problem as mine. Why does some of the documentation have to be dug so deep ;? Is the last part of your answer correct? Suan -- I believe so, that's exactly what I'm using, and it works.

John 's answer below offers an alternative probably better approach to the problem that the last part of my answer is trying to solve, though, so if this is important to you, I'd just go with his solution : — simon. So for example if i ssh into another shell the title will reflect that immediately instead of waiting to update the prompt after i exit that shell. When terminal commands set their own titles, the initial title is always replaced. I'm using 3.

Comment 6 Debarshi Ray UTC Created attachment [details] [review] screen: Update the title with the current foreground process Trying out an idea suggested by rtcm. Not very reliable, but kind of works.

However, if you running your shell nested within another, then keeping the enter key pressed will cause the window title to flicker. Comment 7 Debarshi Ray UTC Created attachment [details] [review] screen: Update the title with the current foreground process This works much better with nested shells than before.

We just skip the key stroke immediately after the title has been updated. If the title was changed by an application then we don't need to bother anyway. I am not too bothered with this because the Mac OS X terminal shows 'git log' and 'man ls' as less, which is a much common case than 'sleep 5; emacs -nw'. We could fix that by exploring cgroups - we can put the shell in its own cgroup and listen for notifications where a new foreground process is spawned. Comment 8 Debarshi Ray UTC Created attachment [details] [review] screen: Update the title with the current foreground process chpe suggested that we guard this behaviour behind a setting.

I have added a show-foreground-process-in-title profile setting for that. Comment 10 Christian Persch UTC Review of attachment [details] [review] : I have to say I don't like this approach too much… So this shows either the application-set window-title, or the process-name as title, depending on the order of some events… that seems rather fragile.