[lug] Gnome Terminal Dynamically-set title problem

[Ferdinand Schmid]

HI,

I have recently decided to give gnome a try because many of my daily apps are 
based on gtk rather than qt.  Most of my work, however, is done through 
terminal sessions.  And this is where the gnome terminal has a very nice 
feature:

You can configure it in the Edit Profile -> Title and Command tab to 
"Dynamically-set title:".  However, this only works for me when I ssh into a 
very old SuSE Linux machine.  Any of the newer machines must not return the 
proper status to the shell because my title update fails.

So far my google searches remained fruitless.  Any ideas what I need to do get 
this feature working?  

Another little nuisance is the fact that the gnome terminal has many 
Alt-<char> key bindings.  Can I disable those so that I can send these 
Alt-<key> combinations via ssh to my connected client?

TIA,
Ferdinand

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Ferdinand Schmid
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