On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:12:28 -0500
Steven Stern <subscribed-lists(a)sterndata.com> wrote:
On 06/12/2013 01:10 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:52:09 -0500
> Steven Stern <subscribed-lists(a)sterndata.com> wrote:
>
>> Suggested by the sudo discussion.
>>
>> When I open a new XFCE terminal, the window title is "terminal".
>>
>> If I ssh to another computer via ssh mooch, the title changes to
>> "sdstern@mooch:~" Typing "exit" to return to my desktop
does not
>> affect the window title.
>>
>> Starting clean, "ssh -p 12345 linode.sterndata.com" does NOT change
>> the window title.
>>
>> Anyone know what's going on with XFCE Terminal?
>>
>> Also, this is exactly the same thing I see if I use gnome-terminal
>> instead, so this is probably a Works-As-Designed. Help me
>> understand the design!
>
> Right click on the terminal and bring up preferences.
>
> What do you have the "Dynamically-set title" option set to?
>
It's set to "replaces initial title"
Great.
Then the issue is likely your shell config... bash by default.
However, I thought bash was setup to update title by default.
It seems to here.
Have you modified any of your bash files? ~/.bashrc, etc?
kevin