Hi,

I'm just trying ROXterm (1.19.4) on my Arch Linux box with XFCE4 desktop,
because XFCE's Terminal has a single profile for all tabs.

I'm using multiple tabs to ssh to several accounts on different computers, and
I'm not sure if the tab/title name behaviour I'm seeing is a bug or WAD.

The window title is set to the title in the profile of the last tab opened,
regardless of which tab has focus. I sort of expected the title to change with
the tab, otherwise I'm not sure I see the point of having it set per profile.

And the tab names of my ssh tabs are all ROXTerm. I know I can set their names
via the menu, but I sort of expected the tab name to reflect the title set in
the profile. Or is there a key/value pair I can put in the profile to do this?
I tried a few likely strings but to no avail.

Of course it may be I've just misunderstood the documentation ;)

Pete

You're right, this doesn't seem to be working properly when the profile
includes a tab name. I also felt that it doesn't make sense to be able to set
a window title from a profile but not a tab title, so I've changed the profile
to set tab titles instead of window titles. Window titles can be set from the
command line. Please can you checkout the latest git and test it. Here's how I
described the changes in the changelog:

Now the profile sets the tab name/title instead of the window title. All tab
titles/names set by the user may include %s to be substituted by the
terminal's title.

The current tab's full title is substituted into the window title which has a
default template of "ROXTerm: %s" which can be overridden from the command
line (but not from a profile).

Sorry to be a bit dumb, but should I be able to build Roxterm from the
snapshot (346d7c7) I've downloaded from the gitweb page? There's no configure
script and no autogen.sh.

I tried running bootstrap.sh and after commenting out the lines invoking git
(10 and 17) it creates a configure script, but config.guess and config.sub are
linked to files that don't exist.

You'll need to actually use git because the lines you removed from
bootstrap.sh are used to generate some essential files.

phardman:

I've created a git package for roxterm and put it into AUR, so you have
everything you need. po4a is currently also in AUR, so have to build and
install this manually before building roxterm-git.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43568

atsutane - thanks for that. I was going to hack up a package based on another
git package in AUR but you beat me to it. I had to hack the Makefile though to
stop it building po4a as make was calling po4a-translate without any path. Not
that I care if I don't have the Japanese manpages ;) Maybe there's a configure
option to do that but I couldn't find it.

realh - That seems to do the trick - the tab names are now working as i would
expect. Thanks.