Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 17863
gnome-terminal and netscape (at least) do not show title
Last modified: 2013-04-02 00:14:44 EDT
gnome-terminal -t TITLE Does not show a title on the terminal window. Neither is there one as a default (which there used to be. Netscape also does not show a title. This worked OK in v6.95 (7.0 beta).
Are you getting titles for anything? I have tried this on a couple of clean installs and it works fine. Which window manager are you using? Make sure you have no theme or settings that are blowing this away. Also, for the terminal if you are overriding the title with PS1 settings in your .bashrc you will never get this to work.
I am using Enlightenment as a window manager. It doesn't look like I am getting titles for any window. It also looks like I can't run the enlightenment config tool (the button is greyed out in the "window manager" config). I guess it is something to go with enlightenment. I tried moving my ~/.enlightenment dir, before starting X, but this made no difference. FWIW, this install is an upgrade from 6.95 (which was working OK). Perhaps it should be logged as a "problem with enlightenment"?
Update: Backing out to enlightenment from RedHat 6.95 does not fix it. Moving the following dirs aside: ~/.enlightenment ~/.gnome* and starting X, then changing to enlightenment WM makes no difference (still no windows). Neither moving the dirs, nor backing out to the older enlightenment RPM allows me to run the Enlightenment config (from the "control center").
So are you using the New Enlightenment - 0.16*? Of course as the update script should have told you when updating from 6.2 we have moved to sawfish for the default wm for GNOME. E does not work well with GNOME now but is fine as a standalone desktop. Things like the config tool are gone and are now divided into many dialogs reached by the root menu items. Unless you are very attached to E you might try using sawfish. I will change this to an E bug and assign however as my best guess is that it lies in there somewhere.
I am using the new Enlightenment (that came with RedHat Linux 7.0) although, as I said, I tried using the one from RedHat v6.95, and that made no difference (but an install of RedHat Linux v6.95 did not exhibit this problem). I noticed that you are pusing sawfish more but, as E used to be your "desktop of choice" for RedHat Linux, that is the one I have gotten used to using. I was intending to look at Sawfish more when I got the chance (after 7.0). I noticed in RedHat 6.95, that there were several config items off the root menu, but I can no longer get _any_ menus in E (as per above - neither in the version that comes with v7.0 or v6.95), yet it worked find with a full install of v6.95. Following your initial comment, I thought this was an E "bug", but now I am wondering whether it is a gnome buglet :( That said, it is likely to be something to do with interaction between E and gnome, which the E maintainer at RedHat may see better.