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

[Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info]

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 at host:directory.


This does not happen for me on Ubuntu (25-04/plucky).
Which distro are you using ?

It may not actually be alpine, but a wrapper script which calls the
alpine executable, in which case you may be able to disable this or
change the string.


> 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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