BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Titles in lxterminal
De:       Jim Diamond
Data:     Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:30:01 +1100
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On 2026-02-18 at 20:43 AST, 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"

I realize that the conversation has moved on, but for anyone coming in late...

There is a '3' in the above line which should not be there.

Try
$ echo -en "\e]0;$TITLE\a"

                                Jim

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