Tab names can't always be set via --title

[Bryce Harrington]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

If I run gnome-terminal like this:

 cp ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc-orig
 cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~
 gnome-terminal --active --title "Default" --tab --title "Bash" -e "bash" --tab --title "Emacs" -e "emacs" --tab --title "NoRC" -e "bash --norc"

The third and fourth tabs show up named correctly, "Emacs" and "NoRC".

If I append "unset PS1" to the end of the .bashrc, it makes all the tabs show up properly. Of course, then I only get the default command line prompts in the session.

The expected behavior (IMHO) is that if --title is explicitly set on the command line, then it should be used preferentially to the prompt.

My use case is I start up gnome-terminal from ~/.xsession pre-seeded with multiple tabs each running a different command, and I like to name each tab to differentiate them.

[Matthew Copple (mcopple)]

Thank you for reporting this behavior. What version of Ubuntu are you using, and which version of gnome-terminal?

Thanks!

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Oh, sorry for not including that. This is current jaunty with latest
gnome-terminal up to date yesterday:

gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 02:53:31AM -0000, Matthew Copple wrote:
> Thank you for reporting this behavior. What version of Ubuntu are you
> using, and which version of gnome-terminal?
>
> Thanks!
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Tab names can't always be set via --title
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315301
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in ???gnome-terminal??? source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
>
> If I run gnome-terminal like this:
>
> cp ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc-orig
> cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~
> gnome-terminal --active --title "Default" --tab --title "Bash" -e "bash" --tab --title "Emacs" -e "emacs" --tab --title "NoRC" -e "bash --norc"
>
> The third and fourth tabs show up named correctly, "Emacs" and "NoRC".
>
> If I append "unset PS1" to the end of the .bashrc, it makes all the tabs show up properly. Of course, then I only get the default command line prompts in the session.
>
> The expected behavior (IMHO) is that if --title is explicitly set on the command line, then it should be used preferentially to the prompt.
>
> My use case is I start up gnome-terminal from ~/.xsession pre-seeded with multiple tabs each running a different command, and I like to name each tab to differentiate them.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, I've sent it upstream at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567158 .