[FR] Option to elide terminal title from the left

[protist]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
My terminal titles are set to the current working directory. When this is long, or there are many tabs, it is elided from the right. For example, /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/terminatorlib becomes /usr/lib/python3.9....

Describe the solution you'd like
Instead, it would often be more informative to elide from the left, i.e. ...ages/terminatorlib

Describe alternatives you've considered
Alternatively, I could restrict my terminal title to the shallowest directory, e.g. in zsh %1~. However, this would frequently remove information unnecessarily.

Additional suggestions
Also, I find the ellipsis to take up a fair amount of space

Perhaps there might be a smaller glyph? In addition, is there a way to remove the close button? I always use the keyboard shortcut.

[mattrose]

Hmm, we just send the text to the tab, I'm not sure if there's a way for us to tell the tab which text to display when we send it up there. I'll do some hunting around the API.

[mattrose]

If you could find another VTE app that does this it would help me greatly :)

[mattrose]

Yeah, this is what we use to set the text https://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/Gtk-3.0/classes/Notebook.html#Gtk.Notebook.set_tab_label and it doesn't really allow us to specify this. There's good parts and bad parts to highly leveraging GTK calls, and this is one of the downsides.

[protist]

Thanks for the quick reply @mattrose. My random searching brought up Gtk.Label.props.ellipsize. Is that relevant?

Also, from the link, it doesn't seem like the ellipsis glyph itself is configurable. Do you know if it is possible to hide the close button?

[mattrose]

props.ellipsize doesn't seem to be what we want, but I'll poke around a bit. Thanks for looking that up.

Holy crap, there's a config variable named close_button_on_tab that is not in the preference UI at all, but if you set that to false in your .config/terminator/config it will get rid of the close buttons on tabs. So that'll work for you.

[mattrose]

I didn't see anything in the label properties that would do what you want. I can ask around on IRC, but other than that I'm out of ideas.

[protist]

props.ellipsize doesn't seem to be what we want, but I'll poke around a bit. Thanks for looking that up.

I didn't see anything in the label properties that would do what you want. I can ask around on IRC, but other than that I'm out of ideas.

No worries. I don't really know anything about it; I was just searching for synonyms. Thanks for checking anyway.

Holy crap, there's a config variable named close_button_on_tab

Awesome! That works well!