suppressApplicationTitle doesn't work

[cool-RR]

Windows Terminal version

1.23.12811.0

Windows build number

10.0.19045.6456

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

The problem can't be reliably reproduced, but sometimes when I SSH into some server, even though I explicitly set the title to "Server (SSH)" it later changes to zsh.

I have "suppressApplicationTitle": true in my settings. My full settings.json.

Expected Behavior

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Actual Behavior

The problem can't be reliably reproduced, but sometimes when I SSH into some server, even though I explicitly set the title to "Server (SSH)" it later changes to zsh.

I have "suppressApplicationTitle": true in my settings. My full settings.json.

[zadjii-msft]

even though I explicitly set the title to "Server (SSH)"

How are you setting the title to "Server (SSH)"? It doesn't look like any of your profiles have that as a name or title. Knowing the exact way you're setting this would help us debug this.

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My theory was:

• you're using your zsh profile
• you're ssh'ing to the server
• then manually renaming the tab in the tab context menu
• then some VT sequence for setting the title (or a settings reload or something) was causing us to forget to the tab's title override

But we couldn't ever get that to work right.

[DHowett]

But we couldn't ever get that to work right.

Well, we couldn't get it to repro that way. 🙂

[cool-RR]

I've got this AutoHotKey line:

Run, "%A_Home%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe" new-tab --profile zsh --title "%title% (SSH)" --startingDirectory "%A_Home%" --suppressApplicationTitle ssh %jumpParam% %target%

[DHowett]

When the settings reloads we blow away both of these overrides. That's not ideal.

[cool-RR]

I don't understand what you're saying at all. Can you explain?

[DHowett]

Oh, sorry. This is a bug on our end - I'm just explaining how it happens.

There are a few things that cause the settings file to reload even when it has not changed. When we reload the settings file, sometimes we forget things you specify on the command line (like --title!)

[cool-RR]

Gotcha. Is there an existing issue for that?

[zadjii-msft]

Huh. I cannot for the life of me figure out the dupe for this!

Pretty sure it was somewhere between:

• "Duplicate Tab" does not really duplicate tab: font size is not duplicated, but opened with default size #11913
• Shortcut to create new window with current profile? Equivalently, clone current tab into new window #14350
• Duplicating a tab/pane without a valid profile should still duplicate the settings from that tab #5047
  • This is the most promising dupe?

But I'm not sure there's a more correct one for "when the settings reload, we blow away the args that are passed on the commandline, and because suppressApplicationTitle is something that's checked as needed, the all of a sudden we start allowing apps to set the title"

(I suppose passing the scheme on the CLI would be a more visual demo)