Used to be able to right click on the tab. This no longer works.
EDIT: It's too bad gnome-terminal no longer supports setting the title but I understand their desire to keep the codebase small. I have switched to ROXTerm and it has this feature and more. You can make it look very close to gnome-terminal. Very happy so far.
Create a function in ~/.bashrc
set-title(){
ORIG=$PS1
TITLE="\e]2;$@\a"
PS1=${ORIG}${TITLE}
}
Then you use your function to set the tab title. It allows spaces in it too.
set-title my new tab title
Install ROXTerm. It's actually more feature-rich than GNOME Terminal.
sudo yum install roxterm
A comment about GNOME Terminal: I agree, that was indeed one of the dumbest things GNOME Terminal could have done, when one has a lot of servers to keep track of, removing the tab-labeling was a real stupid decision.
This functionality was removed from the latest version of gnome-terminal.
From their Bugzilla:
The only way to set the title is through an xterm escape sequence.
You can add this function to your bashrc to work around this:
title () { echo -en "\033]0;$@\007" }
From the downvotes. I know this answer does not make people happy, but this is the actual answer to this question: Gnome terminal has just had a lot of its functions removed for various reasons. "Go install X" is not really an answer to THIS question. OK, go install Emacs and use Eshell---it is more extensible and feature rich than you can imagine, but it does not have tabs as such, but named buffers do the same thing better, IMHO.
That function does not work with bash (4.3) and Gnome 3.14. (Syntax error.) Changing it to multi-line still doesn't work. @maxhasse's answer does work.
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;YOUR TITLE\007"'
Asked: 2015-01-05 12:00:58 -0600
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