I need to be able to see what I'm working on. On my sisters laptop using unity, :set title
sets the title, but on my GNOME desktop with GNOME Terminal 3.10.2 it doesn't do anything.
I can set the title with the command gnome-terminal --title="SOME TITLE"
I can set the title in the GNOME Terminal preferences menu, and I do know that I have set the option to replace the initial title.