Title of MATE Terminal window does not change back after closing ssh session

[Sander-oele]

I recently switched from Ubuntu to Linux Mint 11 on my desktop.

In Ubuntu, closing an SSH session would change the window title of gnome-terminal back to the "user@host" value of the local machine.

In Mint, this doesn't happen by default. This means that if i connect to some remote Ubuntu server and disconnect, the title of the window stays on "remote-user@remote-server".

Please change this! :)

Putting this line in ~/.bashrc seems to solve it:

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

[Sander-oele (sander-oele)]

Correction: the code that fixes the problem (taken from an ubuntu .bashrc) is:

# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
    ;;
*)
    ;;
esac

[Sampo Niskanen (sampo-niskanen)]

I can confirm this bug in Linux Mint 14 and its fix. The code should probably be added to /etc/bash.bashrc.

[Mattis Stordalen Flister (mattis-stordalen-flister)]

Can confirm this issue in Linux Mint 15 Olivia.

The above fix is in /etc/bash.bashrc, but it is commented out. When I comment it back in, the title is updated accordingly.

[Felipe Rodrigues (fbidu)]

I can confirm that Linux Mint 17.1 is also affected by this bug and that sander-ole's code fixes the issue.

[mc^2 (mkoren)]

One quick correction: the commented line in /etc/bash.bashrc has
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD} -- i.e. doesn't convert the home dir to tilde (~).
Sander-oele's made an improvement on that but the fix only works when you quote the tilde as in:
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/"~"}
(otherwise bash reexpands it again, at least on my Linux Mint machine)

[Sander-oele (sander-oele)]

I'm curious what suddenly became 'incomplete' about this bug after 10 years?

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

@Sander-oele (sander-oele)

Please reproduce this bug on freshest Ubuntu MATE version, then it will be reopened.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Can you reproduce this bug with newer version of Ubuntu MATE?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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