I see that this is a really old bug. But I am seeing something recently
that is odd. I have bash functions that have worked for _years_ to set
the title using the ESC ] 2 ; blah BEL sequence. And what I see now is
that in a particular xterm they work for a while, and then stop working.
If I get
First, yes, I was using a ^G in the original tests and not a second ESC
-- sorry, my typo there.
I just tried it in a vanilla Lucid in a vm, and now I'm even more confused. The
standard user's .bashrc can change the titlebar, and here's what it does:
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}
Sorry, not that simple. I tried:
xterm.utf8Title: false
xterm.allowTitleOps: true
xterm.title: blah
The xterm.title line was to make sure it was actually checking my
.Xdefaults, and it was -- the initial title was "blah", but I still
couldn't change it with the escape sequence. Tried both true and
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Can't set titlebar text with ESC sequence
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678322
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