On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > These are just escape characters and many cmdline apps do it including some people's configuration for bash prompts (e.g. PS1) to show the directory vim for what its editing. I seem to recall alpine (pine years ago) doing this for new mail, and there is a setting: [ ] Enable Newmail in Xterm Icon I'm assuming gnome-terminal is also honouring this. - Damion
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