How can I programmically set the gnome-terminal title?

Question

How can I programmically set the gnome-terminal title?

I've tried gnome-terminal --title="bla"

But this opens a new terminal window while outputting

$ gnome-terminal --title=bla
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".

Answer 1

Got this to work

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;g0\007"' 

If this did not change your terminal title you will first have to open ~/.bashrc. Find the line that says:

PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"

Comment out this line, by putting a # character in front of it:

# PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"

Now add this line (you may want to put it just after the commented-out line):

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;Terminal title name change here\007"'

Replace Terminal title name change here with whatever you want to change the Terminal title to be, if anything.

Answer 2

gksu gedit /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop

find Name=Terminal

change to Name=whatever you want

save restart

name changed

IS that what you wanted ?

Or another way without leaving the terminal

cd /usr/share/applications

sudo sed -i 's/Terminal/Your new name here/' gnome-terminal.desktop

to see the name change appear on the icon in launcher you must also restart unity

unity &> /dev/null & disown

for more info about unity restart read http://askubuntu.com/a/38597/71679

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