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Feature request: expose the window and terminal title setting features in context menu #405

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venteto opened this issue Mar 20, 2021 · 3 comments · Fixed by #501
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venteto commented Mar 20, 2021

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The only "problem" per se is that I never knew that keyboard shortcuts even existed for setting the title of the window ( Ctrl + Alt + w ) as well as the individual terminal within the window ( Ctrl + Alt + x ); I only stumbled upon these today via StackExchange. These are very useful shortcuts, and perhaps I'm not the only person completely unaware of them.

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Just to expose the underlying mechanisms with two new entries in the context menu that appears when secondary-clicking inside a Terminator window with one's pointing device. I believe this would immensely help discoverability of these two existing title-setting features.

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I'm including a screenshot of the effects of the keyboard shortcuts and the opened context menu. Alas, when the window is not maximized, the title is not passed to the GNOME Unite extension's title in the top bar, but that's a separate issue (at least Unite picks up the window title of a maximized window).
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That's an interesting idea. I'm a little loathe to add too much to the context menu. If we put every option there that we expose through keyboard shortcuts it would be a really long menu, or a forest of sub-menus. I'll think on it.

@mattrose mattrose added the enhancement New feature or request label May 31, 2021
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Did a little investigation with a thought to discoverability, and decided on the following. You can discover that you can set the titlebar title and the tab title by double-clicking on it, and I think that's pretty instinctive. However there's no way to edit the window title itself without knowing that keystroke, so I just wrote up a patch that adds a "Set window title" to the context menu.

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venteto commented Aug 31, 2021

I didn't know about double-clicking the title within individual panes until you mentioned it here, but thank you for your consideration regarding the main app window title.

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