kde4 - how to customize konsole window title [SOLVED]

albright · Last edited by albright on Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:08 pm; edited 1 time in total

I see in 4.2 konsole's window title is very minimalist. In 3.5 it
showed the current process (e.g. in emerge it would show what
was emerging like 44/76 blah blah) which was GOOD. How can
I customize the konsole window title to get this functionality?

TIA,
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onelove · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:49 pm Post subject:

i am interested in this function too. unfortunatley i didnt figure out how to achieve this, and now its party-time. but i managed to change the tab-title to some extend.

first: in the menubar, choose "Settings"-->"Edit current profile". (if you have deactivated the menu bar, activate it by right-clicking on the konsole-frame and choose "Show menu bar").

second: go to the tab "Tabs".

third: in this tab you can change the "tab title format" with custom variables. i dont know, what variable exists for showing verbose programm information.

regards,
onelove

€1: tomorrow i will look at my urxvt-settings. i think it should be possible to extract this information from the urxvt-settings.

albright · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject:

thanks for the hint, but I don't get it: you'd rather go to a party
than figure this out ??

The answer is to put %w in the title configuration

thanks again.
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onelove · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:59 pm Post subject:

thanks to you too mate! works well.

regards,
onelove

milomak · Apprentice Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 287

this has proved useful for me

paulj · Guru Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 518 Location: Wales, UK

Thankyou very much! I had missed this, but hadn't got around to fixing it