suppressApplicationTitle hides the "Administrator" identifier on the tab #5304

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opened 2026-01-31 00:10:08 +00:00 by claunia · 2 comments
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Originally created by @ramsay-vibes on GitHub (Nov 29, 2019).

Environment

Windows build number: [10.0.18362.476]
Windows Terminal version: [0.7.3291.0]

Any other software? No

Steps to reproduce

  1. Define a cmd profile with "suppressApplicationTitle": true
  2. Define the same profile with a tabTitle, such as "tabTitle": "cmd"
  3. Start Windows Terminal as an Administrator (Run as Administrator).

Expected behavior

The tab appends the Administrator identifier to the tab:
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This issue may be related to #3743 but it is not clear that this is exactly the same issue.

Actual behavior

The Administrator identifier is omitted from the tab:
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If there were another way to identify a Windows Terminal session that is running as an administrator, I would probably prefer this behavior. It would be better than repeating Administrator on each tab, using valuable space.

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claunia added the Resolution-Duplicate label 2026-01-31 00:10:08 +00:00
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@DHowett-MSFT commented on GitHub (Nov 30, 2019):

So, there's a couple things here. suppressApplicationTitle is working as-intended, because Administrator: is part of CMD's app-specified title. You're probably looking for /dup #1939, though, at the end of the day.

fwiw: if you do not want the application's title to be suppressed -- and this applies to all application titles, including those emitted by shells in WSL that include your username (like root) -- you may want to investigate setting good titles from your shell and not suppressing them 😄

@DHowett-MSFT commented on GitHub (Nov 30, 2019): So, there's a couple things here. `suppressApplicationTitle` is working as-intended, because `Administrator:` is part of CMD's app-specified title. You're probably looking for /dup #1939, though, at the end of the day. fwiw: if you do not want the application's title to be suppressed -- and this applies to all application titles, including those emitted by shells in WSL that include your username (like `root`) -- you may want to investigate setting good titles from your shell and not suppressing them :smile:
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@ghost commented on GitHub (Nov 30, 2019):

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

@ghost commented on GitHub (Nov 30, 2019): Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!
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Reference: starred/terminal#5304