Re: Titles in lxterminal

From	Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject	Re: Titles in lxterminal
Date	2026-02-19 16:53 +0000
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On 2026-02-19, bp@www.zefox.net <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:
> Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 2026-02-18, bp@www.zefox.net <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:
>>> From time to time I get badly confused about which terminal window does what.
>>> This is on a Pi5 running bookworm, if it matters.
>>>
>>> One thing that would help is causing each lxterminl window or tab to display
>>> the name of the command being run. In most cases that would be an ssh command
>>> and hostname.
>>>
>>> Obviously, this can be done manually by using the Tabs > Name Tab menuu,
>>> but it seems likely there'd be a setting in .config/lxterminal/lxterminal.conf
>>> which I'm unable to intuit.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if this is true, and if so what syntax is required?
>>>
>>> Thanks for reading,
>>>
>>> bob prohaska
>>>
>> 
>> You need to write the string ESC]0;Title^G  to the terminal.
>> 
>> I have this in a little script called xtn which does this.
>> 
>> To generate ESC in bash use ^V^[   where '^' is holding down the control key.
>> ^G is done like wise. You will have to wrap the strings in quotes
>> 
>> e.g.  echo -n "^[]0;"$1"^G"
>> 
>> good luck. I've just done this in LXTerminal with bash as my shell.
>
> It doesn't seem to do much of anything in my case. Here's a transcript:
> bob@raspberrypi:~$ echo $TERM
> xterm-256color
> bob@raspberrypi:~$ echo -n "^[]0;"$1"^G"
> ^[]0;^Gbob@raspberrypi:~$ 
> bob@raspberrypi:~$

Did you type '^' then '['? Instead you should type ctl-V Ctl-[
and the same for for the other control character.

It worked for me in lxterminal and the $TERM was identical to yours.

>
> I was hoping to see the title change, but no luck. As you might
> guess, my fluency with shells is abysmal. I use them only in a
> very simple-minded way, usually to type single commands.
>
> Thanks for writing!
>
> bob prohaska
>
>

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Titles in lxterminal bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-02-18 20:04 +0000
  Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-02-18 20:15 +0000
    Re: Titles in lxterminal bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-02-19 03:22 +0000
      Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-02-19 16:53 +0000
      Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-02-20 15:50 -0400
  Re: Titles in lxterminal Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-02-19 00:43 +0000
    Re: Titles in lxterminal bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-02-19 03:47 +0000
      Re: Titles in lxterminal Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2026-02-19 16:01 +0000
        Re: Titles in lxterminal bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-02-19 16:54 +0000
          Re: Titles in lxterminal Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2026-02-19 17:52 +0000
          Re: Titles in lxterminal bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-02-22 00:21 +0000
            Re: Titles in lxterminal Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2026-02-23 10:26 +0000
              Re: Titles in lxterminal bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-02-23 18:18 +0000
                Re: Titles in lxterminal druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2026-02-23 23:46 +0000
                Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-02-25 19:45 +0000
                Re: Titles in lxterminal druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2026-02-25 20:42 +0000
                Re: Titles in lxterminal Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-25 22:28 +0000
                Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-02-27 16:29 +0000
                Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-02-27 16:29 +0000
        Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-02-19 16:57 +0000
    Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-02-20 15:42 -0400
      Re: Titles in lxterminal Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-02-20 20:49 +0000
        Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-02-25 21:33 -0400
          Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-02-27 16:24 +0000
            Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-02-27 19:57 -0400
              Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-02-28 11:28 +0000
                Re: Titles in lxterminal Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-28 22:15 +0000
                Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-02-28 22:06 -0400
                Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-03-01 11:39 +0000
            Re: Titles in lxterminal Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-03-02 21:16 -0400
  Re: Titles in lxterminal Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2026-02-19 16:24 +0000
    Re: Titles in lxterminal bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-02-19 17:03 +0000
      Re: Titles in lxterminal Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2026-02-19 20:06 +0000
        Re: Titles in lxterminal Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-02-19 22:55 +0000

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