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Is it possible to make the title change permanent for wsl terminal windows? #640

Closed skwokie closed 1 year ago

skwokie commented 1 year ago

The settitle function is great! Is it possible to make the change permanent. Right now after calling settitle to change it, if I ssh then it will change to username>@<ip. Thanks!

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zadjii-msft commented 1 year ago

Did "Use the suppressApplicationTitle setting" not work for you?

skwokie commented 1 year ago

Thanks @zadjii-msft for your suggestion! It'd be nice if there is a command that I can use to set the title after I call settitle() and I don't think suppressApplicationTitle can do it as it seems to me that it is some value to be set in a profile statically. My use case is: I'd like to set the window title of a WSL terminal to "Jump Host A" and use the window to ssh to jump host A; then open another WSL terminal, set the title to "Jump Host B", and use it to ssh to jump host B; and repeat it up to x number of WSL windows;

DHowett commented 1 year ago

If you suppress application titles, you can rename the tab to whatever you want and it won't be changed when you connect to another server.

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Incidentally, it looks like changing the name of a tab automatically enables suppressApplicationTitle for that one session. Might be worth looking into?

skwokie commented 1 year ago

Thanks, everyone! Using Windows Terminal + Rename Tab works for me!

zadjii-msft commented 1 year ago

To add - if you're connecting to the same couple ssh servers frequently, you may want to set up profiles for them with tabTitle and suppressApplicationTitle pre-set, so that you don't have to rename them each time 😉