How To Change Terminal Title in Ubuntu 16.04

Many programs will override the title, so you can't rely on the title being fixed or other windows not having duplicate titles. This is especially true for remote ssh sessions in gnome terminal. It still helps a lot, but it's not reliable enough for window managers to match (that's why I think they removed it. (Added by Amias Channer)), so this feature has been applied lately gnome-terminal, but it's still there The title can be changed, you can do it by command. To do this, it's easy to edit the ~/.bashrcfile and add the following lines:

# function to set terminal title
function set-title(){
  if [[ -z "$ORIG" ]]; then
    ORIG="$PS1"
  fi
  TITLE="\[\e]2;$*\a\]"
  PS1="${ORIG}${TITLE}"
}

Then you can simply set the title of the terminal window with the command set-title <name you want to set it to>. This is possible because of ANSI escape codes, so any program can output them regardless of where the code runs. That's what the \e and \a bits do. (Added by Amias Channer).

Solution found here and used myself since I was running on 16.04 LTS .