WSL tab not overwritten by tabTitle #5474

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opened 2026-01-31 00:14:15 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @XinranZhao on GitHub (Dec 9, 2019).

Environment

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.476]

Windows Terminal version (if applicable): 0.7.3382.0

Any other software?
Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS

Steps to reproduce

Open a new WSL tab

Expected behavior

Tab title is overwritten by the string specified in setting
"tabTitle" : "foo"

Actual behavior

Tab title is not overwritten, still showing the long string of the directory.
I have seen the 'tabTitle' string works in cmd and powershell, however I only use Windows Terminal with WSL. When I open a new tab for WSL, I can see the process that initially the tab name was 'foo', after a few milliseconds the tab title was overwritten again by the long directory string. Anyway to to make the tabTitle work for WSL?

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claunia added the Needs-Tag-Fix label 2026-01-31 00:14:15 +00:00
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Reference: starred/terminal#5474