console to iou and vpcs has title "Terminal" while it should be the device name in the project

[ahbali]

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for iou and vpcs when opening a console, the %d in ( gnome-terminal -t "%d" -e "telnet %h %p" ) has value "Terminal" and it should be like "iou1" or "pc-1" ( device name in the project ). the behaviour is ok with dynamips devices.

using ubuntu 16.04 and gns3 ppa.

[grossmj]

Looks like the problem comes from our embedded Telnet server. Dynamips has it's own server and it is doing things we have not implemented, for instance: https://github.com/GNS3/dynamips/blob/master/common/dev_vtty.c#L1041

[n3oxmind]

@ahbali @grossmj I got the same problem after installing the gns3-gui-2.1.5, and didn't check why, I though its a bug after seeing it already been reported. BUT I found out its a terminal issue rather than a gns3 bug. I have tested gns3 with multiple terminal including gnome-terminal it worked fine except tilix with muliple tabs(sessions)

For gnome-terminal make sure that When terminal commands set their own titles: under Profile Preferences -> Command is set to Replace initial title and not Keep initial title For Tilix terminal if you have few telnet sessions < 4 then use this command

tilix -a session-add-down -t "%d" -e "telnet %h %p"

if you have multiple telnet sessions > 4

tilix -a app-new-session -t "%d" -e "telnet %h %p"

and make sure to set these Tilix variables: Default session name to ${title} and Application title to ${activeTerminalTitle}

[n3oxmind]

update: Tilix 1.7.9 added new token ${activeTerminlTitle}, this will allow a very nice multiple tabs with the correct name see bellow:

here is how to configure Tilix for multiple tabs with gns3 1- Tilix preferences-> make sure to set the highlighted variables as bellow: 2- gns3 console setting

tilix -a app-new-session -t "%d" -e "telnet %h %p"

all set enjoy nice multiple tabs with Tilix.

[ahbali]

@n3oxmind @grossmj : if its a terminal issue why is Dynamips working fine with the default Terminal preferences (Tilix included)? @n3oxmind : i will use your method when the Tilix PPA gets updated to 1.7.9 ( because it is still 1.7.7 for me), to work around the bug until it is resolved.

[n3oxmind]

@ahbali,

using ubuntu 16.04 and gns3 ppa.

have you tried to install gns3 from the source or using pip3, try this and see if you still have the same issue:

sudo pip3 install gns3-gui==2.1.5
sudo pip3 install gns3-server==2.1.5

if you dont have pip3 installed:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-pip

[sliddjur]

I got tilix working as described. However, is it possible to open the same terminal if I open console multipe times from the same device from within GNS3? The behaviour now, is that it opens a new console session each time.

[dhruvrauthan]

@sliddjur Did you ever find a fix for this? (opening multiple terminals for the same device/appliance)

[sliddjur]

@sliddjur Did you ever find a fix for this? (opening multiple terminals for the same device/appliance)

No, I didn't look into it any more. What I found was that that I use tilix with "quake mode", and that also ruins some of the settings when trying to open a new tab/window in the same tilix sessions, so I pretty much gave up and just use gnome terminal instead.