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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