Re: program title in gnome-terminal

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Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Date
20 Jun 2009 23:42:35
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Re: program title in gnome-terminal
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1245541353.75526.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com

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On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 16:50 +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whenever I run a program in gnome-terminal, it doesn't display the program
> name in the title bar automatically (it says "Terminal" only). I always
> have to set the title by hand. Is there a way that this can be done
> automatically, so that the title says for example "Alpine - Terminal",
> instead of "Terminal" only.

There are lot of hits on Google about dynamically settign the
gnome-terminal title, but none that I found were specific to tracking
the running program. I think this needs to be built into the program
being run. For example, I know vim can do this, and does.

Joe

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