BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Titles in lxterminal
De:       Richard Harnden
Data:     Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:01:33 +0000
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On 19/02/2026 03:47, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
> 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.
> 


Does

echo -en "\033]0;Hello World\007"

work?

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