In older Ubuntu versions, you could have just right-clicked on the Ubuntu Terminal window's title bar and set any title you would like. But unfortunately after Ubuntu 18.04 LTS this feature is gone. I used to love this feature because I'm multiple tabs in the single terminal window kind of a guy. I usually like to work in multiple named terminal tabs like below. By default, in newer Ubuntu version, it is showing just the current directory. Let's see how we can do this. Ubuntu prompt In ubuntu's Bash, there's an environment variable $PS1 which is responsible for the details that the command line prompts. You'll be able to echo this and see what's inside it. If I echo it it will print something like this. echo $PS1 \[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ If you really want to understand what this means, you can refer this page . Updating the termina...
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