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Sometimes I'm using a lot of terminals for server communication, and what boders me is that sometimes I'm lost, so I want to organize my terminal windows by name or tag or something that will make a difference betwen terminal A and terminal B.

Now I have something like this:

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Any suggestion?

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  • Are the server names always the same then? Like its 6 connections and 6 terminals all to the same location?
    – user508889
    Jun 4, 2016 at 13:53
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    This might be helpful, there still might be a better way. askubuntu.com/questions/22413/…
    – user508889
    Jun 4, 2016 at 13:55
  • Server names (hostname) are different, but if I run for example htop, then I can not see hostname.
    – mirsad
    Jun 4, 2016 at 14:02
  • Related: askubuntu.com/questions/527083/…
    – muru
    Jun 5, 2016 at 17:14

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First I've tried with this, but it's not anymore supported:

gnome-terminal --title="SOME TITLE HERE"

Option "--title" is no longer supported in this version of gnome-terminal.

So I've solved with this: echo -ne '\033]0;New title\007'

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    You can also look up how to change the title depending on which directory or application it's currently running. This would be
    – earthmeLon
    Jun 5, 2016 at 20:45
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You could use terminator. It does support names for terminal windows. You can install terminator by using sudo apt-get install teminator

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    It would be nice if you add how to install terminator.
    – MadMike
    Jun 4, 2016 at 16:33
  • Ok. I edited my answer.
    – vortexman100
    Jun 5, 2016 at 17:06
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    A screenshot could be a nice addition as well. ;)
    – Andrea Lazzarotto
    Jun 5, 2016 at 19:40

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