{"id":4412,"date":"2012-05-31T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/?guid=0c99b096df405072e4ecf91b2fdef3f3"},"modified":"2022-08-03T12:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T10:49:23","slug":"how-to-set-gnome-terminal-tab-title-permanently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/how-to-set-gnome-terminal-tab-title-permanently\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set gnome-terminal tab title. Permanently…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been looking for this a few times without success. There are some nasty proposals with setting PS1 variable or other tricks with .bashrc<\/i> mods. Weak and doesn’t actually work.
\nI needed a way to make a bash script that opens several tabs with fixed titles and with fixed start directories and with already started programs (for example tail\/less<\/i> of log files). Or solutions are very complicated.<\/p>\n

There’s a simple way.<\/p>\n

There’s a nice option for gnome-terminal -t “Tab title”<\/i> which allows you to set a title for a tab. But in default profile (a switchable terminal behavior configuration) any program or bash prompt can change tab’s title. So actually setting tab title doesn’t work permanently.<\/p>\n

A good solution is to create a new profile (let’s call it “NoTitleChange”) with options set to not to allow tab change. To do this, in gnome-terminal go to Edit->profiles…<\/i>\u00a0click New, <\/i>apply new name. Then in tab Title and Command<\/i>\u00a0from drop box (When commands set own title…) <\/i>choose Keep initial title.<\/i>
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\nNow you can invoke<\/p>\n

gnome-terminal\u00a0–tab-with-profile=NoTitileChange -t “My Permanent title”<\/span><\/i>
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and nothing will change the tab’s title.<\/div>\n
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You can play with these and other options to create many tabs in one window.<\/div>\n
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gnome-terminal –tab-with-profile=NoTitleChange -t “PERMANENT” –tab-with-profile=NoTitleChange -t “TABS ARE” \u00a0–tab-with-profile=NoTitleChange -t “AWESOME”<\/i><\/div>\n
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I’m using these other options<\/div>\n
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-e, –command=STRING<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Execute the argument to this option inside the terminal.<\/span><\/p>\n

–working-directory=DIRNAME<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Set the terminal’s working directory to DIRNAME.<\/span><\/p>\n

–geometry=GEOMETRY<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0X geometry specification (see “X” man page), can be specified once per window to be opened.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example<\/p>\n

gnome-terminal –tab-with-profile=NoTitleChange -t “src” –working-directory=\/opt\/workspace\/play\/mnp\/repo\/console_gxt2\/mnpc\u00a0 –tab-with-profile=NoTitleChange -t “DevMode” –working-directory=\/opt\/workspace\/play\/mnp\/repo\/console_gxt2\/mnpc –command=”mvn initialize exec:exec -Pdevel”<\/i><\/p>\n

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Now you can create start script that opens proper working dirs (with source code for example) and with server logs open. And you’re ready to go!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’ve been looking for this a few times without success. There are some nasty proposals with setting PS1 variable or other tricks with .bashrc mods. Weak and doesn’t actually work.I needed a way to make a bash script that opens several tabs with fixed t…\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14933,"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions\/14933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}