How to change terminal title?

Question

In windows, I just have to type title mytitle to change the title of the terminal.

c:\title mytitle

How to do it in ubuntu?

It isn't complicated. In my answer you type termtitle mytitle It is only complicated if the title is more than one word then you type termtitle "This is a long title". — WinEunuuchs2Unix, May 26 '21 at 01:23
This is the specific implementation I'm using successfully in gnome-terminal 3.36.2: https://askubuntu.com/a/1164880/1157519 (Someone here will find it familiar :) ) — Levente, May 26 '21 at 01:36

sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio · Answer 1 · 2021-05-26T01:16:39.603

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One option:

gnome-terminal --title="my_title"

For this to work, you probably have to comment this fragment in ~/.bashrc

case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
    # Comment this
    #PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
    ;;
*)
    ;;
esac

You may also try issuing command

echo -ne "\033]0;my_title\007"

See also this.

edited May 26 '21 at 01:16

answered May 26 '21 at 01:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 26 '21 at 01:25

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this is simple enough


set-title(){
  ORIG=$PS1
  TITLE="\e]2;$@\a"
  PS1=${ORIG}${TITLE}
}

answered May 26 '21 at 01:25

Roberto Messa

You should add that answer to the duplicate candidate. In any respect you still have to add the function to ~/.bashrc like all the other answers posted in the duplicate candidate. – WinEunuuchs2Unix May 26 '21 at 01:27

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