• Bug#961679: base-files: please include window title in /etc/issue

    From Santiago Vila@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 15 13:40:01 2024
    El 27/5/20 a las 22:43, Adam Borowski escribió:
    Package: base-files
    Version: 11
    Severity: wishlist
    Tags: patch

    Hi!
    It would be good if /etc/issue set the window title appropriately.

    While it might sound wrong (as /etc/issue is used only for local terminals), serial consoles do count as local. Thus, the output may hit either a real console which since Linux 3.16 ignores these sequences, or a terminal emulator.

    Hello. I don't see this very useful because normally when you have a serial console
    you have only one of it (so there is usually no need to differentiate between them).

    Simple question: I don't have a serial console myself. Is this a change for which the
    effects can be seen when using virtual machines in the cloud? (Let's say, Hetzner,
    GCP, Linode, Digital Ocean, etc).

    Thanks.

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