Package: bash Version: 4.3-11+b1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** I was trying to understand why xfce4-terminal's titles never seemed to change. After digging around a bit I found that gnome-terminal's title also was not changing. it was stuck on user@host:dir I found that it's hard coded in /etc/skel/.bashrc http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~doko/+junk/pkg-bash- debian/view/head:/skel.bashrc#L66 One problem with this is that if you open many xterms you end up with them all being named the same thing and its hard to navigate between them using context switching. * What led up to the situation? I see the benefit of titling the term in this way, but there is also a downside to it. * What outcome did you expect instead? I expected the title of the term to reflect the commands I'm executing in the term. Please consider commenting out these lines in /etc/skel/.bashrc case "$TERM" in xterm*|rxvt*) PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1" ;; *) ;; esac or perhaps finding a way to include the user@host:dir and the current command in the term title? *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 8+deb8u2 ii dash 0.5.7-4+b1 ii debianutils 4.4+b1 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libncurses5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 Versions of packages bash recommends: ii bash-completion 1:2.1-4 Versions of packages bash suggests: pn bash-doc <none> -- no debconf information
