BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Titles in lxterminal
De:       bp
Data:     Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:00:02 +1100
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Theo  wrote:
> 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"
 
No. Neither does it trigger an error message....

> 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?
>
According to /etc/passwd, bash is my login shell, running 
bob@raspberrypi:~$ echo $TERM
xterm-256color

suggests that lxterm is a variant of xterm, which makes sense.


 
> 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?
>
 
As above, xterm-256color

> d) your terminal is choosing not to display it, for some reason (perhaps
> the configuration you mention above)
> 
The configuration file at ~/.config/lxterminal/lxterminal.conf contains
quite a few entries, but none appears to be related to titles. The man
page for lxterminal doesn't give any useful hints. The config file
appears to be name=value format, Shift-ctrl-I brings up the dialog
to manually enter a title which is interpreted as a simple string.

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska


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