--title flag has no effect

Bug #1389588 reported by Andy Balaam
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
LXDE
New
Undecided
Unassigned
lxterminal (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Lubuntu Developers

Bug Description

Run LXTerminal with the --title flag like so:

$ lxterminal -t "My Title"

Expected behaviour: an LXTerminal window opens with the title "My Title".

Actual behaviour: an LXTerminal window opens with the default title (e.g. "user@machine").

[drkokandy's note: OR perhaps, LXTerminal appears to open with its assigned title, but that quickly gets overwritten quickly back to user@host]

This worked as expected until about 1-2 weeks ago. [Late October 2014]

Ubuntu versions affected: trusty, vivid

lxterminal versions affected: 0.1.12~bzr655+201410271939~ubuntu14.04.1 0.1.12~bzr658+201411020131~ubuntu14.04.1 0.1.12~bzr671+201501180117~ubuntu15.04.1 0.1.11-4ubuntu3

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04

LXTerminal about page reports: LXTerminal 0.2.0

$ apt-cache policy lxterminal
lxterminal:
   Installed: 0.1.12~bzr658+201411020131~ubuntu14.04.1
   Candidate: 0.1.12~bzr658+201411020131~ubuntu14.04.1
   Version table:
  *** 0.1.12~bzr658+201411020131~ubuntu14.04.1 0
         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lubuntu-dev/lubuntu-daily/ubuntu/
trusty/main amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      0.1.11-4ubuntu3 0
         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64
Packages

I saw the same behaviour before I upgrade today, with this package version:
$ apt-cache policy lxterminal
lxterminal:
   Installed: 0.1.12~bzr655+201410271939~ubuntu14.04.1
   Candidate: 0.1.12~bzr658+201411020131~ubuntu14.04.1
   Version table:
      0.1.12~bzr658+201411020131~ubuntu14.04.1 0
         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lubuntu-dev/lubuntu-daily/ubuntu/
trusty/main amd64 Packages
  *** 0.1.12~bzr655+201410271939~ubuntu14.04.1 0
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      0.1.11-4ubuntu3 0
         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

 I'm afraid I don't know the last version number where it did work as expected.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in lxterminal (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Dave Kokandy (drkokandy) wrote :

Tested & confirmed with daily builds ppa in vivid daily image as well. Will test without daily builds and try to file an upstream report

lxterminal:
  Installed: 0.1.12~bzr671+201501180117~ubuntu15.04.1
  Candidate: 0.1.12~bzr671+201501180117~ubuntu15.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.1.12~bzr671+201501180117~ubuntu15.04.1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lubuntu-dev/lubuntu-daily/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.1.11-4ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64 Packages

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Dave Kokandy (drkokandy) wrote :

This also occurs in exactly the same way in Trusty without the daily builds.

One thing I observed in testing this on Trusty while in a VM (where the screen takes longer to refresh), the new terminal appears to open with its assigned title, but then the title then quickly changes back to user@host as if commanding it to change back.

Have attached the full output of ubuntu-bug lxterminal --save

lxterminal:
  Installed: 0.1.11-4ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.1.11-4ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 0.1.11-4ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Revision history for this message
Dave Kokandy (drkokandy) wrote :

Looks like this is also already reported upstream: https://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/bugs/704/

tags: added: regression-update
description: updated
Changed in lxterminal (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
tags: added: trusty
Changed in lxterminal (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Lubuntu (lubuntu-desktop)
Changed in lxterminal (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in lxterminal (Ubuntu):
assignee: Lubuntu (lubuntu-desktop) → nobody
assignee: nobody → Lubuntu Developers Team (lubuntu-dev)
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Rigels Gordani (rgordani) wrote :

Tested & confirmed with daily builds ppa in vivid daily image as well.

lxterminal:
  Installed: 0.1.12~bzr671+201501180117~ubuntu15.04.1
  Candidate: 0.1.12~bzr671+201501180117~ubuntu15.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.1.12~bzr671+201501180117~ubuntu15.04.1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.1.11-4ubuntu3 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

description: updated
description: updated
summary: - --title flag has no effect
+ [Bug 1389588] [NEW] --title flag has no effect
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Dave Kokandy (drkokandy) wrote :

Hi Rigels,

I'm trying to learn the bug triage process. Is there a reason why you removed the changes I made to the original description of the bug? I thought I was improving it in line with Bug Squad recommendations.

If my changes were not appropriate, would you mind sharing with me what was inappropriate?

summary: - [Bug 1389588] [NEW] --title flag has no effect
+ --title flag has no effect
Dave Kokandy (drkokandy)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Jarno Suni (jarnos) wrote :

Title option has effect, if you use -e option. E.g.
lxterminal -T "Custom Title" -e "/bin/bash -c read"

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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1389588

tags: added: iso-testing
Revision history for this message
Dave Kokandy (drkokandy) wrote :

According to the upstream bug report, the fix for this has been committed in git and should be part of the next LXDE release: http://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/bugs/704/

Changed in lxterminal (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package lxterminal - 0.3.0-1

---------------
lxterminal (0.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Enabling parallel build (pass --parallel to dh).
  * Remove empty debian/patches/series file.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.8:
    - removing menu file.
  * Changing Maintainer e-mail to Alioth based one.
  * Merging upstream version 0.3.0 (Closes: #767060, LP: #1252451,
    #1298664, #1389588, #1513347, #1557113).
  * Using https for VCS fields in debian/control file.
  * Adding override on dh_auto_test, it fails with 0.3.0.
  * Enabling hardening (set DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS indebian/rules).

 -- Andriy Grytsenko <email address hidden> Tue, 20 Dec 2016 23:44:54 +0200

Changed in lxterminal (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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