Annoying autorenaming in Guake

just run

gconftool-2 --set /apps/guake/general/use_vte_titles --type boolean false

and restart your terminal,

easy as pie(3.14)

I have found a way to disable the annoying renaming. I found in my guake Python script (in version 0.4.3-3) in lines 996 to 1002:

def on_terminal_title_changed(self, vte, box):
    use_them = self.client.get_bool(KEY("/general/use_vte_titles"))
    if not use_them:
        return
    page = self.notebook.page_num(box)
    self.tabs.get_children()[page].set_label(vte.get_window_title())

As the script shows, /general/use_vte_titles key prevents the autorenaming feature. It is Guake uses GConf to configure his options (explanation). I had to install gconf-editor package to edit Guake options executing sudo apt-get install gconf-editor. Then I executed gconf-editor, I browsed to /apps/guake/general and unmarked use_vte_titles key. Closed the editor. Next time I executed Guake the autorenaming feature was disabled.

Now, all the tabs are named Terminal and if I rename one, it still named all the session with the same name. It would be helpful to add this key into the Guake preferences dialogue. But this solution worked anyway.

On the command line:

vim ~/.gconf/apps/guake/general/%gconf.xml

There should be an entry something like this:

<entry name="use_vte_titles" mtime="1404143215" type="bool" value="true"/>

Just change it to:

<entry name="use_vte_titles" mtime="1404143215" type="bool" value="false"/>

Save the file and restart guake.