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

[Damion Yates via Alpine-info]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info <
alpine-info at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> 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.

>


These are just escape characters and many cmdline apps do it including
some people's configuration for bash prompts (e.g. PS1) to show the
directory vim for what its editing.  I seem to recall alpine (pine years
ago) doing
this for new mail, and there is a setting:

[ ]   Enable Newmail in Xterm Icon

I'm assuming gnome-terminal is also honouring this.

 - Damion
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