Backslashes are used as escape characters in gnome-terminal titles
Submitted by Ilkka Tuohela
Assigned to Havoc Pennington
Description
Description: If you put a title with backslash-r to gnome-terminal's title bar, it's treated as escape-sequence \r (linefeed). This happens for example if you always push your currently running command to the title bar, from zsh with preexec() { print -Pn "\e]0;$1\a" }
Result is, you'll get multi-line titles, which might be sometimes intentional and nice but with title \rm foo incorrect.
Resolution: RESOLVED NOTGNOME