Change tab icon according to remote machine name & own config #11189

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opened 2026-01-31 02:41:06 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @gfcroft on GitHub (Oct 27, 2020).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

I use windows sub-system for linux (WSL) a lot with windows terminal (WT) to SSH remote machines, I have created profiles for some of the main machines I SSH, so that when I open the profile for that remote machine SSH, it has an identifiable icon

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It would be great if rather than create a profile for each machine I SSH to, and have to stay in it (else I lose the icon change)
there could be a feature that allows a user to set up a config of machine names in their settings.json, which points to specific icons they have set, then have WT automatically update the tab icon with the icon that has been associated with the machine name, when they SSH over to the different machine

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claunia added the Issue-FeatureResolution-Duplicate labels 2026-01-31 02:41:06 +00:00
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Reference: starred/terminal#11189