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I want to rename my current terminal tab - window title. Please help me how to do it either using CUI or GUI.

Varun Sukheja
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    This might help or be a duplicate don't know: https://askubuntu.com/questions/22413/how-to-change-gnome-terminal-title Stolen from this post: echo -ne "\033]0;SOME TITLE HERE\007" will set your title and your tab to "SOME TITLE HERE". Might depend on the terminal you use. This worked for me with Gnome Terminal & Terminator. – Patient32Bit Jan 16 '19 at 07:02
  • I want to change the window title – Varun Sukheja Jan 16 '19 at 07:23
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    Why have you flagged 14.04? The link provided by Patient32Bit worked on 14.04 LTS, but I didn't have as much luck with my 19.04 (but I didn't try them all) Why flag 14.04? – guiverc Jan 16 '19 at 07:45
  • This is a known bug – Elder Geek Apr 29 '19 at 14:09

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This is a long standing bug that appears to have been 1st reported around 2016.

A currently viable workaround is to install mate-terminal which still has the ability to set the title of the terminal screen as reported by Erik B. Andersen in this bug report comment.

I have tested this workaround under Ubuntu 16.04 as well as 18.04 and can testify that it does indeed work as advertised.

The downside is that it requires the installation of other Mate related supporting packages.

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