Questions tagged [window-title]
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How to reduce title bar height?
I'm running GNOME 3.18 and I would like to reduce the title bar height.
How could I do it?
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Set dynamic window title based on command input
I am looking for a way to dynamically set the urxvt window title based on the command input.
Let's take an example.
If I run mplayer http://66.197.229.245:8082 in an urxvt window, I would like the title of this window to be set to mplayer…
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Display command in xterm titlebar
My Bash Prompt is currently setting the xterm titlebar using the following sequence:
PS1='\033]0;\u@\h>\w\007'
Is there an easy way to display the current command in the titlebar. For example, if I am tailing a file using tail -f foo.log, I want my…
dogbane
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Fix terminal title after SSH remote logging to another machine
right now I am using an one-line perl code to change titles of my terminal bars,
print("\e]0;@ARGV\7");
but every time after I ssh to another remote machine, the title will be modified by the host (by which I'm not particularly bothered). But after…
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Is it possible to set Gnome Terminal's title to "user@host" for whatever host I'm connected to?
I'd like to set the terminal title to user@host so I can easily tell which machine I'm connected to from the window title. Is there a way to do this from SSH or from GNOME Terminal?
Naftuli Kay
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GNU Screen: new window name change
I can change the name of a window with Ctrl-a Shift-a. Instead of editing several window names by hand, is there a way to have them automatically named after the current directory?
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How to hide title bar for a specific window?
I am running Linux Mint 18.3 with Gnome 3.18 as my desktop. I have been building a loading screen for an application I have installed (Mycroft AI). I have the animation, I have it pop up on loading, i have it closing as soon as it finishes loading.…
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Override the window title for an arbitrary window in KDE and set a custom window title
Using KDE here, but there might be a solution that works with other desktops environments too. I often am dealing with many many windows. Most windows contain many tabs (e.g. a Dolphin window with many tabs, or Firefox, Konsole, etc). The window…
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Why am I having ghosting and tearing with the i3 window manager paired with xcompgmr when tiling terminals vertically?
I'm using the i3 tiling window manager. As it doesn't do compositing, I've enabled the xcompmgr compositor in my ~/.i3/config file as well as feh to display a wallpaper:
exec --no-startup-id xcompmgr -c -C -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55
exec feh --bg-scale…
user44370
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Force title on GNU screen
By default, the title of a screen session is the name of the last command entered, which is fine for me, but in some cases I'd like to change it. I know the command Ctrl-A A, but it only changes the title until the next command, and I'd like it to…
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Change tmux pane title to current folder name
By default, tmux sets the current pane title as the active command (ex:vim), even if allow-rename is off.
I want to change it to current folder name (basename $PWD).
Note that I do not want to dynamically change window name, since I sometimes use…
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What does it mean to set a terminal's "icon title"?
I generally see the syntax for setting the terminal title as (something like):
echo -e '\e]0;Some Title\a'
But I noticed this answer used 2 instead of 0, which prompted me to do a little more digging. According to this document you can actually set…
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Get windows' titles using command line
Is it possible to get the titles of all the running GUI application windows via CLI? The titles which are also shown on the task bar buttons. For example:
Firefox: cPanel X - Main
Nautilus: File System - File Manager
I am using Linux Mint XFCE…
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How to disallow GNU screen from making change to my putty window title
Currently whenever I open a screen session from within PuTTY, the window title of the PuTTY window changes to "screen". I would like to prevent this from happening.
Please let me know what is the way to do it. Apologies if this is a duplicate…
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GNU screen tab gets renamed whenever I type a command
When I use gnu screen, in other tabs, I ssh into other machines, rename the tab accordingly, and do work normally. The tab name sticks.
In a fresh tab, which is just a terminal on the original machine, whenever I type any command, the tab gets…
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