How to change Konsole title in bash?

Question

I would like to have the Konsole title changed every time I run a loop, like this:

while read line; do
  echo $line $i/$numline
  echo -ne "\033]0;$line $i/$numline\007"
  commands
  let i=i+1
done<text

I've found that the echo -ne "\033]0;text\007"command doesn't work.

Answer 1

You need to first go to settings of konsole:

settings -> configure current profile -> Tabs -> Tab title format = %w

The konsole by default ignores what is asked for, it does its own thing, as configured. %w tells is replaced by what ever the shell wants it to be. There are other codes, use the insert button it knows all the codes.

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A brief note on getting the shell to take over from what the terminal emulator was doing.

I have this is my ~/.bashrc it updates the title. You may have to do more research into bash variable PS1, or look at variable PROMPT_COMMAND.

case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
    PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
    ;;
*)
    ;;
esac