[Alpine-info] changing Alpine's window's title/header (under Gnome Terminal)

D. Hugh Redelmeier via Alpine-info alpine-info at u.washington.edu
Fri Jun 13 06:50:43 PDT 2025


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 at host:directory.

It turns out that I sometimes run alpine on different hosts at the
same time. The window header doesn't allow me to tell which alpine is in
which window.

Is there a way to customize what Alpine sets the window header to?
I searched for "alpine" in the config screen and none of the matches
seemed to be for window headers.


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