Bug#638414: gnome-terminal: Anomalous behaviour when SSHing to virtual box's guest machine, running on a bridged adaptor (automatic tab title change)

[harish badrinath]

Hello,
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> Le vendredi 19 août 2011 à 13:05 +0530, Harish Badrinath a écrit :
> This is not a bug in gnome-terminal, most likely a configuration issue.
You are spot on.
> Please read on the escape sequences that affect window titles.

After adding
<snip>
# If this is an xterm set the title to user at host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
    PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
    ;;
*)
    ;;
esac
</snip>
to bashrc, (which is not added to root user's bashrc by default , but
added to a normal users bashrc by default) things work as expected :/.

/closed ??