BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Titles in lxterminal
De:       Jim Jackson
Data:     Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:30:01 +1100
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On 2026-02-18, 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.

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