> From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via Alpine-info <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:50:43 -0400 (EDT)
> When I run Alpine in a Gnome terminal, it puts "alpine" in the window's
> header. This is something alpine is actively doing since the default
> terminal header (maintained by BASH) has user@host:directory.
I know suspect that this is done by the system-wide bash .profile.
But it takes too much spelunking to figure that out. It runs all
these and more"
$ ls -l /etc/profile.d/*.sh /etc/profile.d/sh.local
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 57 Jan 4 19:00
/etc/profile.d/70-systemd-shell-extra.sh ->
../../usr/lib/systemd/profile.d/70-systemd-shell-extra.sh
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 57 Jan 4 19:00
/etc/profile.d/80-systemd-osc-context.sh ->
../../usr/lib/systemd/profile.d/80-systemd-osc-context.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6037 Jul 24 2025 /etc/profile.d/bash-color-prompt.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 747 Jul 22 2025 /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 205 Jul 23 2025 /etc/profile.d/colorgrep.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1431 Jan 15 19:00 /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 205 Nov 22 19:00 /etc/profile.d/colorxzgrep.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 220 Jul 23 2025 /etc/profile.d/colorzgrep.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 923 Oct 27 20:00 /etc/profile.d/debuginfod.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 873 Jan 20 19:00 /etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 757 Aug 28 2019 /etc/profile.d/gawk.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 241 Mar 3 2025 /etc/profile.d/gmpopenh264.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 22 Jan 27 19:00 /etc/profile.d/gnupg2.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3187 Jul 24 2025 /etc/profile.d/lang.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 253 Jul 23 2025 /etc/profile.d/less.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 120 Jul 23 2025 /etc/profile.d/nano-default-editor.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1351 Jan 22 19:00 /etc/profile.d/PackageKit.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 81 Jul 24 2025 /etc/profile.d/sh.local
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3675 Sep 16 20:00 /etc/profile.d/toolbox.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5062 Jan 21 19:00 /etc/profile.d/vte.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 465 Jul 24 2025 /etc/profile.d/which2.sh
> It turns out that I sometimes run alpine on different hosts at the
> same time. The window header doesn't allow me to tell which alpine is in
> which window.
>
> Is there a way to customize what Alpine sets the window header to?
> I searched for "alpine" in the config screen and none of the matches
> seemed to be for window headers.
I figured out a stupid trick to do this:
ln -s /usr/bin/alpine bin/distinct-name-for-alpine
>From then on, I can fire up alpine with the command
"distinct-name-for-alpine" and get that in the terminal window header.
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