[Intrepid] gnome-terminal --title ignored

[Andrew]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

The --title does not seem to do anything

Example

gnome-terminal --title=Testing

This opens a window with the title (username@computername: ~)

[Andrew (andrew-rw-robinson)]

Version is 2.24.1-0ubuntu1

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, what do you have in "Title and Command -> When terminal commans set their own titles"?

[Andrew (andrew-rw-robinson)]

Looks like changing the default profile to set to "Keep initial title" does the trick. I incorrectly assumed that the command-line option of --title would alway take precedence.

[Andrew (andrew-rw-robinson)]

Looks like I have to re-open this. Now, when I set the profile to "Keep initial title" and then try to change the title using "Terminal>Set Title...", the correct title is in the dialog, but the title of the window/tab is the initial title. So it appears that not even gnome-terminal can change the title with that setting.

What I am desiring:
Open several tabs with different working directories (my typical development environment) and name them according to the work I will do in them, but for other terminals, to be able to change the title using the set title.

It seems as if there is a one-or-the-other philosophy here. I would expect that starting a term with "--title" or using the "Set Title" menu item always overrides the title (aka bash shouldn't change the title). If no --title was given or if "Set Title" is never called, it should use the default title of the program (username@computername: ~)

Any ideas on how to get that to work without having to make different profiles and get them to work?

PS - konsole does this fine. I am trying to switch to gnome-terminal since I am using gnome at the moment and gnome-terminal fonts look better than konsole for some reason (kde3 version was better)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

well that's the right behavior, if you launch gnome-terminal with --title something that would be the initial title since it's launched with that argument which it's the right behavior, now if you after launched gnome-terminal by clicking on the icon you execute the command without the --title argument which means the initial title of the terminal would be "Terminal" and you cannot change it because you choosed to keep the initial title for it, that's not a bug, closing this report, thanks again.