Hi,

in konsole, I have often lots of tabs logged in at one or more remote hosts. I would like to rename the current tab and login via script. The method to rename the tab succeeds, but temporarily only:

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qdbus org.kde.konsole $KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION org.kde.konsole.Session.setTitle 1 'myhost:mymsg'

After a few seconds the title falls back to previous one. I tried several values for the tab title patterns, including empty, but the previous title returns in any case.

Is there a chance to inhibit restoration of the old title and to pin the new one?

I'm on openSuse 11.1 and updated KDE to 4.3.2

regards

I can reproduce this issue on Trunk. It is likely to be a bug in Konsole, as I cannot find any method available through D-Bus to switch auto updating off.

Thank you for your answer, but it is bad news, it is really a handicap for my daily work

Meanwhile I found it reported as bug/wish as comment at
Bug 189828: Tab title won't stay manually set

I have a temporary solution that might work for some people until this bug gets some attention

set the tab title to '%w', and replace the dbus call with

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echo -ne "\033]0;myhost:mymsg\007";

This one will maintain the change until the script that set it ends, but it can also be overridden by the server (usually by bashrc setting the 'PROMPT_COMMAND' variable)

again, not a perfect fix, but it does well enough in my case, so I thought I might share.

dah-veed, thank you for the hint, but it does not work for me. I don't know the reason.

I found another work around, which works for me. With tab title to '%w':

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mkdir -p "$WorkAroundDir/$SessionName"
cd "$WorkAroundDir/$SessionName"


The new tab name persists until the script exits.

Can you please file a bug report at bugs.kde.org regarding this, as commands sent over D-Bus should work correctly.