BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Titles in lxterminal
De:       bp
Data:     Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:00:02 +1100
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Jim Jackson  wrote:
> 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.

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:~$

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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