On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 09:44:58AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I've no Mate terminal here (just plain xterm), but this fourth way is > the one Debian chose for me: the shell prompt (via the PS1 variable) > is the one working the magic. I guess Mate terminal works as Xterm > here. > > It's defined to be > > tomas@trotzki:~$ echo $PS1 > \[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$
Ah yes, good old Debian /etc/skel/.bashrc at work. Presumably you mean this section: # If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir case "$TERM" in xterm*|rxvt*) PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1" ;; I don't know what mate-terminal uses for $TERM, or what it used back in stretch, but it's something the OP could research, I suppose. If it changed from "xterm" to "mate-terminal" or something along those lines, that would certainly explain the change.