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Title:
How to change Gnome-Terminal title?
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Works on Ubuntu 16.04 to 22.10
This answer is simpler than most others. To use it, you would just type:
title "My new title"
- Easier to remember than most other answers.
- The accepted answer and others do not work on modern versions of Ubuntu (from 16.04 on up).
- This answer doesn’t require 3rd party packages like
wmctrlandxdotool. - Version 2 allows running multiple times in the same session.
One-time function creation
Create the title function in your ~/.bashrc file:
function title() {
# Set terminal tab title. Usage: title "new tab name"
prefix=${PS1%%\\a*} # Everything before: \a
search=${prefix##*;} # Eeverything after: ;
esearch="${search//\\/\\\\}" # Change \ to \\ in old title
PS1="${PS1/$esearch/$@}" # Search and replace old with new
}
Save the ~/.bashrc file. After opening a new terminal tab use:
title "Special Projects"
or:
title Special\ Projects
A phrase with spaces must be wrapped in double quotes (") or each space must be escaped with \.