Ubuntu – How to change Gnome-Terminal title

command linegnome-terminaltitlebar

I have several instances of terminals running in my working environment, what I would like is to set a specific title for each one, in order to have a clear idea what purpose the specific terminal serves i.e. Apache, editing_ini, postgres etc…

Of course from the command line.

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Alternatives:

There are other ways however, you can also issue
```
gnome-terminal --title="SOME TITLE HERE"
```
This might not give the desired effect since there is a big chance that your .bashrc overwrites that behaviour.
Bringing us to the last method, which I shamelessly ripped out of my .bashrc.
```
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;SOME TITLE HERE\007"'
```

As an extra reference, this is the particular line in my .bashrc

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'

You may also need to comment this code out in your ~/.bashrc

case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
    # JEFFYEE REMOVED because it makes commands to title() not work
    #PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
    ;;
*)
    ;;
esac

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Ubuntu – xtitle not changing title in Ubuntu 11.04

Turns out xtitle is working fine and changing the title. However, there's a section in the default .bashrc as follows:

# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
    PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
    ;;
*)
    ;;
esac

which sets the prompt up so that it changes the title back to the usual value every time it asks the user for input.

By commenting the PS1=... line above out, the title remains set to whatever you choose.

This has the side effect of not updating the current user@host status for all terminals. To selectively enable this for just the current shell, before running xtitle use:

export PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '

(Remember, you must source this in the terminal, not call/source from a script!)

Ubuntu – Prevent gnome-terminal from changing directory when creating a new tab or window

I get it work by setting a custome command in profile settings, command tab.

From top menu: Edit -> Profile Preference.

Then command tab, check the Run custom command instead of my shell and set /bin/bash as your custom command.

To run the default shell instead of bash use:

/bin/sh -c '`/usr/bin/getent passwd $USER | cut -d: -f7`'

instead /bin/bash as your custom command.

I'm not sure what is the cause of problem, However I thing each time you create a new tab gnome-terminal forks your current instance, so it's going to inherit your old tab's working directory, but when you set a custom command it's going to create a new instance each time.

Thats only what I think is happening here.

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