Gnome terminal is not showing ssh commands in title bar

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It depends on which system you connect to. If you connect to a system which doesn’t know how to set the tittle bar, then it isn’t going to be set. Fedora systems have a shell variable named PROMPT_COMMAND which does the magic thing to modify the title bar.

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The OP describes the problem as a regression.
This implies it worked correctly before updating.

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If you add

unset PROMPT_COMMAND

to .bash_profile on the remote system, you can see that the tittle bar is not updated. I tested and confirmed that this happens with Live system of Fedora 39 as well as Live system of Fedora 40. If you revert that change to .bash_profile the title bar is updated, also in the current version of Fedora 40.

The OP was seeing that when connection to a Solaris system, and I would expect that this has never worked.

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I guess it is a not solved issue.

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Yes, it is reproducible.

I installed a fresh Fedora 40 in “Boxes”. It worked smoothly. I “dnf update -y”, and it stopped working. I tried that twice. No manual changes whatsoever.

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This issue is dated back 4 years as I saw it there.

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Try this:

sudo dnf downgrade vte\*
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I tried it and it worked like a charm.

After downgrade, the below packages are like:
$ rpm -qa|grep vte
vte-profile-0.74.2-4.fc40.x86_64
vte291-0.74.2-4.fc40.x86_64

They were 0.76.3.

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Any idea where to go from here?

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I do not know if setting the title the way it used to do is considered a feature or just a nice to have subject to change.

Having your own scripts that you control that set the title reliably seems the most robust thing to do.

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I guess this is a bug.

How can we transfer this case to gnome-terminal developers?

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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 2297024 Submitted.

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I use zsh . PROMPT_COMMAND is not set in zsh, but there is a precmd(){} function.

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Check if this update fixes your issue:
FEDORA-2024-92affc3339 — bugfix update for gnome-terminal — Fedora Updates System

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Problem is now solved after updating to gnome-terminal-3.50.1-8.fc40 today.

I issued sudo dnf update. 2 packages were updated among other packages: gnome-terminal and gnome-terminal-nautilus.

rpm -qi gnome-terminal still shows version 3.50.1, and not 3.50.1-8.

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rpm -qi gnome-terminal shows:

Name        : gnome-terminal
Version     : 3.50.1
Release     : 8.fc40

The 8 is part of the Release number. If you leave off the -i, you get the version and release together:

$ rpm -q gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal-3.50.1-8.fc40.x86_64
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That’s fine with me.

Solved.