[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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