On Fri, 13 Jun 2025, D. Hugh Redelmeier via Alpine-info wrote:
When I run Alpine in a Gnome terminal, it puts "alpine" in the window's
header. This is something alpine is actively doing since the default
terminal header (maintained by BASH) has user@host:directory.
I do not know Gnome terminal, but I doubt alpine, which is just a
program running in whatever terminal interferes with the window
decoration.
I do not use gnome nor KDE nor any other desktop environment, but a window
manager namely fvwm. And as terminals I use good old xterm or urxvt.
However good well-behaved X11 applications (somebody would call them
"old-fashioned" :-)) use Xtresources or command line switches like -T
and/or -n.
These days I mostly run alpine on my work machine [where I receive all
mail] in an urxvt terminal where I ssh from home to my work machine. The
title bar shows a thing like "Host hostame" user myname on terminal n"
(which I achieve with alias wrapeprs around ssh). However if I run alpine
natively on the work machine (physical console :0 or a VNC session on :1)
my "mymail" alias invokes alpine in a pink urxvt where I set the title bar
with these switches
-T Mail\(Alpine\) -n Alpine
So for me it is something you should control in your DE or WM. Either
study the documentatation or find somebody who knows it. I went the former
way long ago as for most things (I'm pretty hard in getting the machine
doing what I want :-))
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Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Corti 12 - I-20133 Milano (Italy)
For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html
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