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opened 2026-01-31 03:23:17 +00:00 by claunia · 4 comments
claunia commented 2026-01-31 03:23:17 +00:00
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Originally created by @marbaa on GitHub (Feb 25, 2021).

Hi there,

documentation is not very rich about it. Here is the scenario.

I start up Debian WSL1 distro, taskbar and tab title shows user@host:pwd format. Thats good. If I do ssh to another server, title is not changed to newly logged server but still shows the title from WSL distro.

Am I doing something wrong or Windows Terminal does not have feature that will change tab/taskbar title whereever I do ssh to some server?

Originally created by @marbaa on GitHub (Feb 25, 2021). Hi there, documentation is not very rich about it. Here is the scenario. I start up Debian WSL1 distro, taskbar and tab title shows user@host:pwd format. Thats good. If I do ssh to another server, title is not changed to newly logged server but still shows the title from WSL distro. Am I doing something wrong or Windows Terminal does not have feature that will change tab/taskbar title whereever I do ssh to some server?
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claunia commented 2026-01-31 03:23:19 +00:00
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@KalleOlaviNiemitalo commented on GitHub (Feb 25, 2021):

Windows Terminal does not itself try to detect that you ssh to a server. Instead, the server has to ask Windows Terminal to change the tab title. See Tutorial: Configure tab titles in Windows Terminal.

@KalleOlaviNiemitalo commented on GitHub (Feb 25, 2021): Windows Terminal does not itself try to detect that you ssh to a server. Instead, the server has to ask Windows Terminal to change the tab title. See [Tutorial: Configure tab titles in Windows Terminal](<https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/terminal/tutorials/tab-title>).
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Feb 25, 2021):

Already, when the terminal is showing the user@host:pwd text, that's the local WSL instance changing the title to display that text. I'm guessing that your remote shell isn't configured to change the title as part of the prompt. What shell are you using on the remote server?

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Feb 25, 2021): Already, when the terminal is showing the `user@host:pwd` text, that's the local WSL instance changing the title to display that text. I'm guessing that your remote shell isn't configured to change the title as part of the prompt. What shell are you using on the remote server?
claunia commented 2026-01-31 03:23:19 +00:00
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@marbaa commented on GitHub (Feb 26, 2021):

Actually it is working as I expected. I was just testing it on server which had somehow corrupted .bashrc. When I made ssh to another from that corrupted server, title was changed to actual server, as expected.

@marbaa commented on GitHub (Feb 26, 2021): Actually it is working as I expected. I was just testing it on server which had somehow corrupted .bashrc. When I made ssh to another from that corrupted server, title was changed to actual server, as expected.
claunia commented 2026-01-31 03:23:19 +00:00
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@DHowett commented on GitHub (Feb 26, 2021):

Thanks for letting us know.

@DHowett commented on GitHub (Feb 26, 2021): Thanks for letting us know.
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