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Why is the window title not updated on closing ssh connection

Asked by fidel

I am usually working with several terminator windows (actually running 0.98-1 on Ubuntu 16.04) and doing a lot of remote connections to other hosts.

I am wondering when a terminator-window title is set and when it will be updated at all.

You might wonder why i am asking this - its simple - just follow my small example:

- If i open up a terminator window and ssh as user A to HOST_1 the window title is set to A@HOST_1.
This is fine so far.

- If i now close this ssh connection and return to my local host in the same window - the window title is still A@HOST_1 which is misleading. When switching back from HOST_1 to localhost the window title should be updated as well i think.

- The window title seems to get updated only if i now ssh as user A to another host - lets call it HOST_2. If i do so the window title gets updated to A@HOST_2. Which again is good.

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Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy) said : 		#1

For me this works as expected. For info I'm using Terminator 0.98 (+ changes to trunk) and standard bash on Ubuntu.

The way I understand this works is that the bash process echo's an escape code to update the title. The VTE widget receives that escape code and updates the terminals title, and emits a signal for title-changed which is what Terminator acts upon for updating widgets and the like. It gets the title from VTE.

I think what is happening is that your local shell client is not echoing the right escape code to set the title when you logout from the remote ssh shell. I can replicate your symptom if I mess around with my PS1 environment variable. For reference from my Ubuntu .bashrc:

if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
else
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt

# 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"
    ;;
*)
    ;;
esac

Somewhere in there is the escape sequence that sets the title to the value of the prompt. Hope that helps.

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