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

[Lucio Chiappetti 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.


I do not know Gnome terminal, but I doubt alpine, which is just a 
program running in whatever terminal interferes with the window 
decoration.

I do not use gnome nor KDE nor any other desktop environment, but a window 
manager namely fvwm. And as terminals I use good old xterm or urxvt.

However good well-behaved X11 applications (somebody would call them 
"old-fashioned" :-)) use Xtresources or command line switches like -T 
and/or -n.

These days I mostly run alpine on my work machine [where I receive all 
mail] in an urxvt terminal where I ssh from home to my work machine. The 
title bar shows a thing like "Host hostame" user myname on terminal n" 
(which I achieve with alias wrapeprs around ssh). However if I run alpine 
natively on the work machine (physical console :0 or a VNC session on :1) 
my "mymail" alias invokes alpine in a pink urxvt where I set the title bar 
with these switches

-T Mail\(Alpine\) -n Alpine

So for me it is something you should control in your DE or WM. Either 
study the documentatation or find somebody who knows it. I went the former 
way long ago as for most things (I'm pretty hard in getting the machine 
doing what I want :-))


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