Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3) OS: Linux When displaying the "Window title set by shell" (%w) the title is only set when starting an program. If the program sets the window title more than once, the window title will not be updated. E.g. with gentoo's emerge.
Window title updates are actually triggered by user input. When the user presses a key a title update will be queued, then a couple of seconds later the shell and its foreground program are examined and the title is set from that. In this case window title changes from the program should also trigger an update. Bug confirmed.
Fixed by SVN commit 756966.