[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 11:38:12 PDT 2025
> From: Andrew C Aitchison <andrew at aitchison.me.uk>
>
> 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 ?
Fedora 42.
> 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.
I don't see a wrapper script. /usr/bin/alpine is a binary. Fedora ships
pretty plain versions of most things. Alpine is 2.26.
I think that there is a patchset applied, but not generated by Fedora
folks.
I tried invoking alpine as /usr/bin/alpine and the window header still
said "alpine".
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