BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Titles in lxterminal
De:       Theo
Data:     Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:43:23 +0000
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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?

Does this set the window title:

$ export TITLE="hello world"
$ echo -en "\e]30;$TITLE\a"

bash should set the window title to the current command, using the same
escape sequence.  If it doesn't:

a) you aren't using bash. Maybe it needs to be enabled in your shell?

b) bash is not configured to set the title, I'm not sure where you'd find
that

c) your terminal is not advertising itself as a suitable type that uses the
escape code.  What's your TERM variable set to?

d) your terminal is choosing not to display it, for some reason (perhaps
the configuration you mention above)

Theo

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