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On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 16:50 +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> Hi,
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> Whenever I run a program in gnome-terminal, it doesn't display the progra=
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> name in the title bar automatically (it says "Terminal" only). I always=20
> have to set the title by hand. Is there a way that this can be done=20
> automatically, so that the title says for example "Alpine - Terminal",=20
> instead of "Terminal" only.

There are lot of hits on Google about dynamically settign the
gnome-terminal title, but none that I found were specific to tracking
the running program.  I think this needs to be built into the program
being run.  For example, I know vim can do this, and does.

Joe

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