How can I change my gnome-terminal title?

Question

Previously I changed my gnome-terminal title to display which server I was logged into. I don't remember how I did this and I can't change it now.

I ran through my .bashrc and found nothing that would set it, and logged in as su. As superuser the title also changes.

I checked my .Xdefaults file... nothing

I tried to open a gnome terminal with:

gnome-terminal --title=$PWD 

Any title I set with the above command or PROMPT_COMMAND will be shown for half a second and then revert to my server name.

I looked through the terminal settings too. Any thoughts where I could have made this change? Running on CentOS.

Answer 1

You can do so by:

wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -N "MyWindowTitle"

to note - you need the wmctrl package first.

source

You can find more possible solutions at the given source.

Answer 2

It's probably using shell escape codes like this:
echo -ne "\033]2;hello\007"
This will set the terminal title to be hello. And from the description I'd guess that you are doing something like this:
gnome-terminal -> shell(e.g. bash) -> ssh user@othermachine -> bash In that case, you need to search for it on the local machine, might be something bash or ssh is doing.