manipulating gnome-terminal title, post-creation
Is there a way to change the title text of a gnome-terminal, using a command from inside the terminal that you want to change?
I know you can set the title on creating a terminal using the --title command line option, and I know that you can arbitrarily change the title of a running gnome-terminal manually by using the menu system. But what if you want to manipulate the title from within a script? I can't find any reference in the documentation to how to do this. Thanks in advance for any info. Apologies if it's right there and I'm missing it. -Dan |
I'm not sure if this is quite what you are looking for, but I pulled this from my .bashrc on my Debian Etch system. This dynamically sets the window title to whatever user/host combination I currently am logged in as.
Code:
# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir |
almost
Thanks for the hint. That does, indeed, work--almost. It sets the title, which is then immediately replaced by gnome-terminal's "chosen" title again. (I can see it flash my new title up for the briefest moment.)
I just can't imagine that gnome doesn't provide a basic way to control something like that programmatically--even more basic than writing escape sequences to the terminal. I might just see if I can write small program that finds the gnome-terminal CORBA object and sets the title that way. |
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