Tilix: Session Title doesn't change

[GeertGeurts]

Hello,
Somehow the session title doesn't change anymore...
When I open teminix the top toolbar shows Terminix: Default. I can change this when I mouseclick it.
This used to be the place where the session title was shown and would correspond to the the selected sessiontitle seen when pressing F12. Somehow this mouseclick editable feature, which I like a lot by the way, disabled this functioning.
Is this a confiuration issue?
If so, where to change?

Thanks!
Best regards,
Geert

[gnunn1]

What do you have set for the Default Session Name and Application Title in preferences, see screenshot below for what I use:

[GeertGeurts]

Hello Gerard Nunn,
Thanks for your quick reply!
I do not have the Window style option...
Instead for me there is a checkbox for Enable transparency.

Best regards,
Geert

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Gerald Nunn [e-mail]
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What do you have set for the Default Session Name and Application Title in
preferences, see screenshot below for what I use:

[image: screenshot from 2017-02-21 07-51-01]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/9358238/23165539/9dfb362c-f80a-11e6-8102-15e9cea1eb41.png

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[gnunn1]

That's not important, I need to see what you have for Default session name and Application title. Please post a screenshot like I did.

[GeertGeurts]

OK sorry...
Please see the attached screenshot!

Regards,
Geert

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That's not important, I need to see what you have for Default session name
and Application title. Please post a screenshot like I did.

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[gnunn1]

There's no screenshot, try editing the bug directly in github and attaching the screenshot there.

[GeertGeurts]

[gnunn1]

You can rename a session bu clicking the hamburger menu in the headerbar and selecting Name.... When you click the title and edit it, that is changing the Application title not the Session name.

Also, in the screenshot above you can use something other then Default if you want, for example if you use ${title} it will use the title from the currently focused terminal in the session.

Does that answer the question?

[GeertGeurts]

Is it possible to configure terminix to show the session title there where currently the application title is?

[gnunn1]

It's already configured that way, that's what the ${appName} : ${sessionName} is doing in the Application title setting. If you only want the session name showing just delete the app name variable.

[tonylambiris]

Thanks for the quick replies @gnunn1, would it be possible to have a checkbox that will inherit the Application Title from the current profile's Terminal title, or does that behavior already exist in a place I'm overlooking?

Thanks again, starting using the terminal today on Arch and loving it!

[gnunn1]

Yes it's already there, just set the Application title to ${title}

You can see a list of all variables here:

https://gnunn1.github.io/terminix-web/manual/title/

[tonylambiris]

@gnunn1 I get the following when setting the Application title to ${title}:

FWIW I'm loading the recommended vte.sh:

16:24:45 c1-linuxdev ~ $ tail -3 ~/.bashrc_local 
[[ $TERMINIX_ID || $VTE_VERSION ]] && source /etc/profile.d/vte.sh

PROMPT_COMMAND=bash_prompt_cmd

[gnunn1]

Are you setting it in preferences or by clicking the title and editing it directly? If editing it directly try setting in preferences as Application title. It should work the same though for either.

Worse case, use the settings in my previous screenshot.

[phw]

I can reproduce with ${title} and other terminal names in the application title.

What works for me is:

• Set the session title to ${title}, it will reflect the title of the current active terminal
• Set the application title to ${sessionName}, it will correctly show the session name (which is the terminal name)

But directly setting ${title} in the application name gets printed as is. Doesn't matter if I set it in the options or the headerbar directly.

To be honest I find the many titles most confusing :)

[gnunn1]

OK thanks @phw, that's a bug. I can understand the confusion, if you have any suggestions to simplify it or make it easier I'm happy to take them.

[phw]

two things I noticed:

• The variable helpers are great, but they should be available everywhere one can edit titles
• If the application title uses the default value and you edit it in the title bar, it is empty. But for me as a user it would be easier to see the default string there so I can tweak it.

Personally I would even question whether we need separate session and application title, but I can see why some people want to have that flexibility.

[gnunn1]

@phw The only place the variable isn't present is the Entry that appears when you click the title. I didn't do it there because it's a wider control and it causes the minimum size of the window to increase. I should probably revisit this though.

[tonylambiris]

@gnunn1 Editing the title through preferences:

Apparently my settings were already configured to mostly match yours. Just to be thorough, I built this today from the AUR without changing anything in the PKGBUILD itself:

16:40:31 c1-linuxdev ~ $ pacman -Qi terminix 
Name            : terminix
Version         : 1.5.0-1

[phw]

The only place the variable isn't present is the Entry that appears when you click the title.

I also meant the "Name..." dialog in the session menu on the upper right and terminal layout options dialog.

[gnunn1]

Thanks, I'll take care of those as well.

[gnunn1]

Mostly fixed except for the session name input, I'll have a look at that tomorrow.

[GeertGeurts]

really??!
Brilliant! nice one!
I go check it out immediately!

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 1:37 AM, Gerald Nunn [e-mail]
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Mostly fixed except for the session name input, I'll have a look at that
tomorrow.

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[gnunn1]

So this should be all fixed up now, however note the title editor will only appear for the Session name dialog if you are using Wayland as there is not enough room for the popover to appear without getting clipped in X11.

[gnunn1]

Oh and I'd also appreciate it if someone could test the title editor when you click the window title. Getting it disappear when it loses focus but not disappear when interacting with the variable popover was a bit tricky.

[GeertGeurts]

Sorry for the late reply gnunn1, I got lost in dependency hell although the "dub" tool seems to be there to overcome dependency hell, not having it is... well.... HELL ;D
Anyways, I got things working! Thanks for the improvement of terminix!!
It's brilliant!
Thanks!

[tonylambiris]

Working for me too, thanks!